JPMorgan Chase announced Monday that starting January it will begin a five-year, $30 million dollar investment in Seine-Saint-Denis, a region of France to the northeast of Paris. It's an area marked by high unemployment, crime, and homelessness, and has 28% of its population living below the poverty line.

It also, however, is on the cusp of two developments that JPMorgan wants to take advantage of: the 2024 Olympics — Seine-Saint-Denis is home to France's national soccer and rugby stadium — and the Grand Paris Express rapid transit line that will connect Greater Paris

As Stephanie Mestrallet, JPMorgan's vice president of global philanthropy in Europe, told Business Insider, "OK, we know that there are these issues, we know that a lot of people are going to invest in these areas — can we add to this effort that is currently happening?"

The money will go toward apprenticeship programs for young people, job retraining programs for older adults, and small business development.

The investment is a continuation of JPMorgan's philanthropic commitment to the region and will be the first made from the $500 million AdvancingCities initiative when it begins in January. AdvancingCities is itself a five-year program that the bank developed as an extension of investments into Detroit in 2013, after CEO Jamie Dimon decided to assist the city after it declared bankruptcy.

The bank found its Detroit project so successful that it made similar investments in Chicago, Washington, DC, and the New York City borough of the Bronx. Advancing Cities is built upon the lessons learned in these American cities over the last five years.

The initiative has two components, involving a competition among cities around the world that want help with kickstarting their economies, as well as investments outside of the contest. Seine-Saint-Denis falls into the latter, and Peter Scher, JPMorgan's head of corporate responsibility, said that the 150-year anniversary of JPMorgan's involvement in France (when JPMorgan's business partner opened a firm there) this November was a great occasion to move forward with a project they deemed ready to go.

JPMorgan had sent 16 employees to the area this past spring to get familiar with the area and see if there were necessary conditions for successful investments. They decided there indeed were. And though the AdvancingCities competition is still fielding proposals from more than 1,000 cities for the rest of the month, Scher said, "When we feel like we're ready and we can make the investments we do."

Using lessons from Detroit and London

When Scher explained AdvancingCities to us in September, he said that one of the key takeaways from their initial work in Detroit was that the level of partnerships on the ground is contingent on the success of the investments. That is, the bank's team has to rely on business and government leaders in each respective region to determine where money will be best spent and loaned.

In Seine-Saint-Denis, the French President Emmanuel Macron's administration is involved in the project, and the minister of employment, Muriel Penicaud, will join Dimon on Tuesday in an announcement press conference at the Les Compagnons du Devoir (LCD) charity in the region. JPMorgan partnered with the charity last fall and made a 460,000-euro investment into apprenticeship programs.

The AdvancingCities initiative as a whole utilizes both low-cost loans and philanthropic spending, but this upcoming $30 million investment will be entirely in the form of grants. They will support more apprenticeship programs like those offered by LCD, as well as small business accelerators like Impact Partenaire and Pact PME.

Scher said the JPMorgan will send around 100 employees from its global offices to assist with these programs over the next five years, as it has done with its previous city investments.

He said that the Great Paris initiative's success will be measured by effects on employment rates and small business growth, particularly in the poorest sections of the region. The AdvancingCities team is using its insights from its American projects, as well as how the bank's investments in East London during the 2012 London Summer Olympics affected the city's economy, for Seine-Saint-Denis' benefit.

"I think it demonstrates that not just the challenges are quite similar wherever you go, but many of the solutions are quite similar," Scher said.

Description: Show will be held on November 6-7, 2018. Meet face-to-face with the experts of suppliers of hundreds of custom parts and components all in one day. The exhibitors will be job shops and contract manufacturers that provide custom metal, plastic, rubber and electronic parts and finishing services to OEMs. Learn about the latest in cutting edge manufacturing technologies and innovations. See, touch, interact with new products and processes. Free Seminars. Free admission and parking. Hours: Mon 9:30am-3:30pm;…...View more detail »

Rashida Tlaib never set out to be a “new face” of the Democratic Party – but on the cusp of her election to the US House of Representatives, she can hardly avoid the label. Not long ago, her profile – a Muslim civil rights lawyer and mother of two, raised by Palestinian immigrant parents in a majority-minority community in Detroit – might have been seen as too far a reach for Congress.

These aren’t necessarily the result of intentional voter suppression right then and there at the local level—but they are a reminder of how broken and dysfunctional America’s voting systems are, and how badly we need nationwide reform that will improve voting access and security. We shouldn’t be relying on a few volunteers per precinct, or having people turned away because no one can find the voting machines that turn out to be locked away in a closet.

It’s been a while since we last checked in with Detroit Cargo; the makers of leather goods. Luckily, we were able to catch up with the man behind the brand at the Philly Bike Expo to see a selection of what’s currently available. The Woodward Tool Bag – seen above – maintain its classic look […]

When a defense generates 10 sacks in a game, it's fair to assume that it saw something it could exploit in the opponent's pass protection. But, for the Vikings' defense vs. the Lions, that wasn't completely true.

The Philadelphia Eagles claimed cornerback Cre’von LeBlanc off waivers from the Detroit Lions on Monday. To clear a roster spot, the Eagles waived veteran cornerback Dexter McDougle. Since the trade deadline has passed, all players must clear waivers before becoming a free agent.

MI-Detroit, DTS is looking for Senior Buyer - Electrical for a direct hire position in Detroit, MI with one of our automotive client. Job Description The Senior Buyer has overall responsibilities for coordinating with Central Purchasing for building and maintaining Client's supply base. The successful candidate will work in a lean, fast-paced and rewarding work environment, where he/she will have the support

BITTLES James Edward – 1873, born in Lemont, Illinois 145 years ago to James Bittles & Margaret REID. GRUBBA Joseph – 1912, married Edith REICHMAN in Detroit, Michigan 106 years ago. (son of John & Marianna) HINCKA Martha (Hopp) – 1979, died in Saginaw, Michigan 39 years ago when she was 78 years old. (daughter […]

Jared Clinton of The Hockey News with 7 possible destinations for Joel Quenneville,
Who better to replace Blashill with than Quenneville, too? There are no standout coaching prospects in Detroit’s system and Quenneville could help pump some life into a team that has looked lost at times over the past few seasons.
And while we don’t want to get too far ahead of ourselves, wouldn’t it be somewhat enticing for Quenneville to head to Detroit if, say, Steve Yzerman also hopped aboard with the Red Wings at some point next summer? It’s been speculated that Yzerman, who stepped down from his post in Tampa Bay, could be a candidate to fill a role in Detroit next season. And Red Wings fans would no doubt be excited about a pairing of ‘Stevie Y’ and ‘Coach Q.’
a bit more on Detroit and the other teams...

There are lots for ideas that will results Tuesday to your Detroit Elephants whenever they might be acquire a good triumph during Mn, vacation undefeated while in the NFC N . together with idiot back in any. 500 make within the midway issue within their couple of years. Formulated with any Vikings’ go match, holding […]

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Voters at a precinct in Detroit, Michigan, were forced to wait an hour and a half if they showed up to cast their vote when polls opened at 7:00 a.m. (12:00 p.m. GMT), local media reported.

I don’t know about you, but the next time I need to cool down, trip out, and feel good about the universe, I will turn to this epic playthrough of Ecco the Dolphin with soundtrack by Detroit’s Drexciya. Humans made this. We can follow those humans, or dolphins, or some combination to the future. Ecco […]

At the turn of the 21st century, one Detroit duo was way ahead. Almost two decades later, the world is revisiting Drexciya and their imagined underwater future – the time is right, and the deepest insights come from James Stinson speaking in his own words. Drexciyan Cruise Control Bubble 1 to Lardossan Cruiser 8 dash […]

Actor and comedian Marc Evan Jackson has appeared on Parks and Recreation , Reno 911! , and Brooklyn Nine-Nine . He currently stars as an all-knowing immortal judge named Shawn on NBC’s The Good Place , which he describes as “the smartest, dumbest show on television.” “Within an episode of the show, within the body of the show, within single lines of dialogue, this show deals with fairly deep and complicated aspects of ethical and moral philosophy, and also fart jokes,” Jackson said. Jackson graduated from Calvin College in Grand Rapids with a degree in philosophy in 1992. He says that he made his way to the world of comedy through a series of happy accidents. In the late 1990s, Jackson joined The Second City Detroit comedy troupe. Several members of that group went on to enjoy successful careers in television and film, a fact that Jackson attributes to Detroit’s lack of a tourist-based audience. Unlike Second City shows in Chicago and Toronto, which could use the same material for up

Most Michigan polls closed at 8 p.m., bringing an end to an Election Day that saw high-voter turnout and scattered problems at polling locations Original published: 2018-11-06 20:01:40 Read the full Detroit News here

#BREAKING: All lanes of westbound I-94 are closed at Telegraph in Wayne County after a fuel tanker fire, according to the Michigan State Police. Westbound I-94 closed at Telegraph due to tanker fire Source

Why would you want to wear a dinosaur or pumpkin skin when you could represent your favorite football team instead? This is a strange question that Fortnite players will soon be asking themselves when the NFL skins appear in the game on November 9. Popular Fortnite players like Ninja showed them off during their livestreams today.

Ninja, who is a huge Detroit Lions fan, was decked out in the team's iconic silver and blue, and teamed up with ImTimtheTatman, who wore Dallas Cowboys gear. When the skins are purchased, the player can select any team and number for any match. So if you start out by wearing a Miami Dolphins skin with the number 22, your next match could be as a Chicago Bear with number 45. The skins that are being sold feature three distinct looks for both male and female avatars.

As you can see from the image below, you can round out the football look with a goal post melee item.

Detroit Institute of Music Education (DIME) is making headlines – in Rolling Stone no less.

In October, GRAMMY-winning artist Alessia Cara came to Detroit to do a Q&A with DIME students ahead of her forthcoming album The Pains of Growing. Rolling Stone picked up the story after Cara took to DIME's humble stage to perform her breakout hit, "Here."

See the video below, and head to Rolling Stone to see the full write-up.

Get our top picks for the best events in Detroit every Thursday morning. Sign up for our events newsletter.

Copping the moody neon color pallet made popular by Bladerunner 2049, for their eighth studio record Simulation Theory(Warner Bros., Nov.9)Muse dabbles in a cyberpunk world that screams Tron: Legacy pinball rather than soul-searching replicant.…

On Tuesday, residents across the state of Michigan will head to the polls to make very important decisions that will affect the future of our state. Decisions such as whether Bill Schuette or Gretchen Whitmer should be Michigan's next governor, or whether incumbent Debbie Stabenow will be able to hold her seat in U.S. Senate against newcomer John James.…

The techno club – which has held down 1846 Michigan Ave. for more than two decades – is facing eviction.
[content-1]On Saturday, Nov. 3, The Works raised the alarm about the nightclub's future by sharing a link to a GoFundMe fundraiser created to raise money to open its new, still-undisclosed location. The Works had a long-running lease agreement with the building's previous owner, but the building sold and the new owner decided not to renew the nightclub's lease.

Nation of Islam leader and prominent antisemite Louis Farrakhan chanted “Death to America” and claimed that “America has never been a democracy” on Sunday during a solidarity trip to Iran, ahead of the re-implementation of US sanctions this week.

According to Iran’s semi-official state news agency Mehr, Farrakhan said at a meeting with the Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council Mohsen Rezaei that America is conspiring against Iran.

“I understand how the enemies have plotted against the Iranian people and I would like to stay alongside you to stop their plots,” he said.

He also blasted American support for Saudi Arabia, Iran’s arch-rival in the region, and added, “Satan seeks to divide Muslims and wants them to kill each other, while God tells us in the Quran to be united.”

Detroit office of our client seeks materials science patent agent with 1-4 years of experience. The candidate must hold a degree in Materials Science (or Chemical Engineering with significant experience with materials science). Must preferably have experience with mechanical and electromechanical technologies. Must be in good standing and an active member of the MI State Bar. Should be registered to practice before the Patent Office.Strong writing, research, and communication skills required. Must hold a JD degree from an ABA-approved law school. Must have strong academic background."Keep an eye on this national firm. Dramatically expanding through lateral hiring and mergers, it is now one of the largest firms in the nation. Its branch office has maintained its Midwest glow and is known for its personable, friendly atmosphere. The firm provides traditional legal services in corporate transactions, litigation, real estate, tax, corporate law, and IP practices for its clients primarily in the automotive and related industries, including tier one automotive suppliers. We've made some calls and associates have reported that they are really comfortable here and particularly pleased with the extensive and comprehensive training programs the firm provides. The multi-office firm also gives them an abundance of resources. "

Detroit office of our client seeks materials science patent attorney with 1-4 years of experience. The candidate must hold a degree in Materials Science (or Chemical Engineering with significant experience with materials science). Must preferably have experience with mechanical and electromechanical technologies. Law firm experience is preferred. Must be in good standing and an active member of the MI State Bar. Should be registered to practice before the Patent Office.Strong writing, research, and communication skills required. Must hold a JD degree from an ABA-approved law school. Must have strong academic background."Keep an eye on this national firm. Dramatically expanding through lateral hiring and mergers, it is now one of the largest firms in the nation. Its branch office has maintained its Midwest glow and is known for its personable, friendly atmosphere. The firm provides traditional legal services in corporate transactions, litigation, real estate, tax, corporate law, and IP practices for its clients primarily in the automotive and related industries, including tier one automotive suppliers. We've made some calls and associates have reported that they are really comfortable here and particularly pleased with the extensive and comprehensive training programs the firm provides. The multi-office firm also gives them an abundance of resources. "

MI-Detroit, The Supply Chain Management organization offers entry level associates an outstanding opportunity to launch a successful career with a major automotive company known in the industry for speed, style and innovation. Whether you are just starting your career or ready to take your career to the next level, you will find challenging and rewarding opportunities that will help develop your talent. We ar

Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and her Republican challenger, John James, sparred over their experience and issues such as health care in their second and final debate before November's election. Stabenow said Monday at the Detroit Economic Club that now is not the time to send ...

An abstract art piece by Detroit based artist Joseph Bernard....This is done in water color and maybe some charcoal/pencil as well...I am selling with limited knowledge of this interesting piece...It is titled "Secret" and has 2-74 which I do not know if this is the date or the # of this piece...Framed in a gold tone metal and has the artist's name on the back covering of this framed piece...Framed 17" x 11" wide..art itself 13 1/2" x 7 1/2"

CONDITIONS::::Appears to be in great condition including the frame...some of the circles take on a smeared look but appears it is as the piece was painted...The paper backing does have a tear where someone grabbing for the hanging wire put a finger into the paper---it is the framing paper backing not the art piece..

Monday November 5, one day before the election, marked the resumption of sanctions on the Islamic regime by the Trump administration. Nation of Islam boss Louis Farrakhan flew to Iran to speak out on behalf of the ruling mullahs.

As Fox News reported, Farrakhan told Mohsen Rezaei, Secretary of Iran’s Expediency Council: “Today, I warn the American government that sanctioning Iran is a big mistake.” The eager Farrakhan failed to flag any mistakes by the Iranian Islamic regime, the world’s biggest sponsor of terrorism. And Farrakhan took care to time his visit with an important event.

Thirty-nine years ago, in 1979, the Islamic regime of the Ayatollah Khomeini invaded the U.S. embassy in Tehran, took more than 50 American diplomats and civilians hostage, and held them for 444 days. Farrakhan marked the anniversary by telling law students at the University of Tehran, that “America has never been a democracy” and then led the students in a chants of “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!”

No one in America had ever seen a performance quite like that. On the other hand, in his live Tehran show the Nation of Islam boss was not advancing any new themes.

On October 14, the 23rd anniversary of the Million Man March, Farrakhan addressed a cheering audience in Detroit: “To the members of the Jewish community that don’t like me — thank you very much for putting my name all over the planet…I’m not mad at you, ‘cuz you’re so stupid.” The Nation of Islam leader also claimed “I’m not an anti-Semite. I’m anti-Termite,” and repeated that message in a tweet.

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz denounced the speech and called out presidents Obama and Clinton, along with former DNC boss Keith Ellison, for their ties to Farrakhan. Even so, prominent Democrats running for office were not swift to denounce Farrakhan for his Jews-are-termites speech. In fact, Farrakhan thrives on special treatment from high-profile Democrats.

“Louis Farrakhan has ingratiated himself with the liberal elite in the United States,” Howard Feldman noted after the “termites” speech. “Both Obama and the Clintons have been photographed alongside him. And whereas they publicly denounce his attitude towards Jews, the fact that they continue to be seen with him is that which empowers him.”

True to form, at the funeral of Aretha Franklin, who passed away in August, Farrakhan got a place of honor, right up front with Democrats Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Erica Holder. Many speakers exploited the occasion to bash President Trump, but none of the prominent Democrats took Farrakhan to task about anything. Viewers got the impression the Democrats liked being seen with him.

Back in 2005, a smiling Illinois Senator Barack Obama duly posed with Farrakhan for a photograph that only recently emerged. That was no surprise because the senator’s 1995 Dreams from My Father portrayed the Nation of Islam in a completely favorable light.

The author’s hatemongering Chicago pastor Jeremiah Wright, who prefers “God damn America” to “God bless America,” was a longtime pal of Farrakhan, and the Dreamsauthor participated in the Million Man March. In 2008, when the dreamer ran for president, Farrakhan called him the “messiah.”

Once elected, POTUS 44 preferred to target conservatives rather than take Farrakhan or Wright to task. In similar style, for the most part, the establishment media have remained uncritical of the Nation of Islam boss, even though his racist views were no secret.

As Stanley Crouch explained in the Village Voice in 1985, in the view of Louis Farrakhan, “the white man was a devil ‘grafted’ from black people in an evil genetic experiment by a mad, pumpkin-headed scientist named Yacub. That experiment took place 6000 years ago. Now the white man was doomed, sentenced to destruction by Allah.” It follows that, regardless of self-image, anyone who believes that Dave Brubeck, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Wright Brothers are the devilish result of Yacub’s failed experiment is a racist.

In 2016, Hillary Clinton was quick to target Trump supporters as racists, sexists, homophobic, islamophobic, and so forth, a veritable “basket of deplorables.” When it comes to racism, the former First Lady and Secretary of State, who would still like to be president, pretty much gives Farrakhan a free pass.

For his part, the Nation of Islam mouthpiece knows he can call Jews termites, denounce America from Tehran, and most prominent Democrats will treat him gently. In reality, his “Death to America” chant differs from the Democrats only in degree, not in kind.

Now completely dominated by the left, Democrats despise the America that actually exists, with its culture, history, traditions and borders. Their dream is the future social justice America, with no borders. In the Democrats’ vision, only their party prevails, with help from an imported electorate.

"No Trump, no wall, no USA at all,” the refrain of leftist Democrats, is no great distance from “Death to America,” as chanted by Louis Farrakhan in Tehran. Democrats have effectively empowered this loathsome racist and anti-Semite. At election time or any time, non-Democrats, journalists and civil rights leaders would be wise call them on it.

MI-Detroit, The EE System Cost Engineer (SCE) is responsible for establishing technical cost for electrical and electronic components throughout program life (establishing piece cost targets, negotiation support for new business placement, detailed cost analysis for design changes). Working from BOM, drawings and/or samples the Engineer must be able to develop technical cost for components and systems using h

Was stuck in a CNN-showing bar tonight for a short while. Usual salt and pepper talking heads, women and a White guy for window dressing. They were discussing the Georgia Governor race. One theme ran through the discussion. That Georgia had 'improved' so much over the last twenty years or so, to the extent that the state was now on the point of electing a worthless black female land-whale as Governor. (They didn't put it quite like that of course!).The inference being that the White electors had become tolerant and anti-racist over that time span. In fact the explanation is that the White electors have been replaced and displaced. I don't have the figures to hand but according to Amren non-Hispanic Whites, who comprised about two thirds of the population in the mid-eighties now comprise a bare majority. Same reason Detroit politics has been dominated in recent times by blacks. In 1950 the electorate was 85% White, now it's 90% black. So CNN panel the explanation lies not in a Pauline conversion of Whites to diversity and multiculturalism. In fact we can safely assume any change in outlook will be in the opposite direction.

Though she’s always been careful not to make public assumptions, it’s been clear since August that Detroit native Rashida Tlaib was destined to make history as the first-ever Muslim congresswoman after these November 6 elections. After all, Tlaib ran unopposed in her Michigan district. And tonight, she didn’t disappoint—she won.

The real question, which Tlaib, 42, was always quick to assert, is whether or not she was going to get the unadulterated joy of sharing that massive milestone with Minnesota’s Ilhan Omar. After winning her primary in early August, Tlaib was quick to share her resources with Omar.

Ms. Tlaib sent a dozen of her campaign workers to Minnesota to do a last minute canvas push for Ms. Omar, a state legislator.

“We both care deeply about where we come from, about how strongly we defend who we are,” Ms. Tlaib said. “Leaning on each other gives us courage.”

There’s a lot on the line for working people in this election, and a lot on the line for the union movement—especially its immigrant members, its women, its LGBT members, and so many others who the Trump administration and Republicans more generally are attacking as workers and in their lives outside work. And the union movement has campaigned accordingly, working hard and exploring innovative tactics to get out the vote.

The Culinary Workers Union in Las Vegas has registered more than 10,000 voters this cycle in the crucial state of Nevada, and helped 650 immigrants become citizens. It’s following that up with a major GOTV push among members and in neighborhoods.

Working America, the community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, has had 235,000 conversations with voters across 12 states—most notably nearly 42,000 conversations in Ohio, 41,000 in Minnesota, and around 35,000 in Pennsylvania and Michigan. The organization engaged in heavy testing of its results and found that its in-person work adds eight votes out of every 100 conversations.

AFSCME’s I AM 2018 campaign has sought to engage young men of color in 15 cities including Atlanta, Miami, Cleveland, San Antonio, Milwaukee, Detroit, Las Vegas, and more, and has seen major increases in commitments to vote.

Communications Workers of America has run boot camps to train union members to become organizers and activists, and has run a campaign focusing on southern states—including Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and Tennessee—building on past successes like the work the union did in 2016 to elect Roy Cooper governor of North Carolina, this time with an eye to shrinking the Republican majority in the state legislature and electing more Democrats to Congress.

And after a spring that saw a wave of teacher uprisings, nearly 1,800 educators are on the ballot nationwide. Stay tuned to find out how their races turn out.

Those are just a few of the labor movement efforts to engage workers and get out the vote, happening all around the country and providing a huge infusion of resources and boots on the ground to pro-worker candidates and causes.

EVENT INFORMATION | PURCHASE AUTHOR’S BOOKS | AUTHOR’S WEBSITE Speaker Bio Mackenzie is a multi-award-winning author of the YA Fantasy series The Rite of Wands, published by BHC Press, which has caught the attention of Doctor Who and Harry Potter fans worldwide. Readers agree that Mackenzie has crafted a robust tale of secrets, mystery, […]

What I have for sale or trade are 6 holster various brands 2 are for revolvers 3 are for semi autos. The revolver is set up for j frame design, is the clip draw for universal revolver, the other is a uncle mikes universal the other 3 are for a ruger ec9s or lc9s or the pro model, first in a blackhawk iwb ambidextrous fit next is an alien gear owb needs belt clip or wall or bed mount to be complete. Third is a we the people inside the waste band Kydex holster 4th is we the people Kydex inside the waistband holster. The last one is a kydex holster from holster express for a glock 19/23 or 26/27.and a uncle mikes soft holster for glock 42 43 26 or 27.

The obvious takeaways from this story are that (a) crack cocaine is a hell of a drug (b) drug abuse prematurely ages people something fierce and (c) despite what they sometimes claim cops are actually able to refrain from use of deadly force in stressful and dangerous situations when they want to do so. And who is stupid enough to light up the crack pipe in front of agitated police officers attempting to make an arrest? Crackheads are stupid enough. That's who. And I can't be the only person who finds it ironic that the other dopehead arrested is actually named Weed. This is less Thelma and Louise than Dumb and Dumber.

A 36-year-old female motorist from Eastpointe who a Macomb County Sheriff's deputy tried to pull over smoked crack cocaine and then led authorities on a car chase, officials said Thursday. The incident happened at about 2 a.m. Oct. 25 in Harrison Township, according to the sheriff's office.

The woman, identified as Kristi Rettig, has been arraigned on a charge of first-degree fleeing and eluding police, a felony, according to court records. A judge ordered Rettig held on a $20,000 bond. If convicted, she faces up to 15 years in prison. The sheriff's office said she has also been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, drug possession and driving with a suspended license. Rettig is a parole absconder who had not reported in since March, officials said. She has two prior convictions for drug possession, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections. She also has a 2005 conviction for unlawfully driving away an automobile.

As deputies tried to box in her vehicle to stop it, Rettig crashed into two sheriff's vehicles. She drove off the roadway and came to a stop, police said. Deputies then instructed the driver and her passenger to show them their hands, officials said. The passenger, identified as Alexandra Weed, 28, of Melvindale, complied, according to police. Weed has been charged with drug possession.

MI-Detroit, FCA US LLC's College Intern Program offers a unique opportunity for highly motivated, innovative, and inspired individuals to work in a challenging assignment where contribution, teamwork, and communication are vital to the success of the organization. As a leading-edge company, we can provide real world challenges and rewarding intern experiences to candidates from a variety of colleges and unive

The inaugural meeting between the Toronto St. Patricks and Detroit Cougars took place on Jan. 4, 1927 at Border Cities Arena in Windsor, Ontario. The arena — nicknamed “The Barn” — was the Cougars’ first home.

It was only a matter of time. After a four-game hiatus, the Boston College line of forwards Cam Atkinson, Brian Gibbons, and Joe Whitney reasserted its dominance on the ice. The three skaters combined for six of BC’s nine goals, as the Eagles punched their ticket to the Frozen Four in Detroit with a 9-7 victory over the Yale Bulldogs last night at the DCU Arena in Worcester.

MI-Detroit, The SAP-EWM Functional Lead will provide leadership in process analysis, process and system design, systems development, configuration, testing, implementation and training to support the SAP functions of our clients according to specification and Schedules while meeting quality requirements. What You Will Be Doing -Work directly with clients to gather an understanding of their business needs and

VANCOUVER—British Columbia’s new anti-money-laundering laws, not racial profiling, may have been what prevented Drake from gambling in Vancouver last weekend, according to several sources — including an online post purporting to be from an employee at the casino.

The Toronto rapper, full name Aubrey Drake Graham, just turned 32 on Oct. 24 and has a penchant for visiting casinos around the date, according to previous social-media posts.

On Instagram, Drake wrote: “Parq Casino is the worst run business I have ever witnessed … Profiling me and not allowing me to gamble when I had everything they originally asked me for.”

Drake’s account was disputed by a Reddit user who claimed he is a Parq casino employee, though StarMetro could not independently verify the truth of that claim. The user didn’t respond to an email requesting more information. CTV News, however, said it verified the events described with another unnamed source.

The user, “O-A-N,” alleged that Drake ran afoul of rules requiring he produce proof he withdrew funds of more than $10,000 the same day and declare its source.

“Basically, you need a bank receipt for the same day you buy in,” the Reddit post said. “He was refused service because of (the British Columbia Lottery Corporation’s) policy that requires source of funds from any player trying to buy in for more than $10,000 in cash.

“Parq tried to do everything they could to allow him to gamble … including calling up BCLC. Drake and his entourage were well informed of this policy when they were refused service. If Parq allowed Drake to break this law, they could lose their gambling licence.”

According to an update from the same Reddit user, Drake did end up gambling both that night and the next day.

“He was there for at least six hours that I know of,” the user wrote. “Drake did in fact gamble for a while. Not only did he have his own ($10,000) buy-in, he had a friend at one point wire him money to Parq, which they accepted, and he gambled some more.

“When he lost that, he tried to buy in again with cash and he was refused again. Seems like after losing everything, he left and threw and made that post.”

A spokesperson for Parq Vancouver told StarMetro she “can’t comment on specific customers” for privacy reasons but said that “Parq Vancouver is responsible for following all of the regulations set out by B.C. (Lotteries Corp). We follow these guidelines for every customer.”

The casino said in a Saturday post on its Instagram account it is “constantly improving our communications process to ensure that these new regulations are better understood by all guests ... We are operating in one of the most complex, highly regulated industries and are always looking to better our communication and customer service.

“We categorically stand against racism of any kind.”

In a statement on its website, B.C. Lotteries Corporation says it requires reporting of any cash buy-in of $10,000 or more, including the customer’s identification and a bank receipt.

“All cash and bank draft/certified cheque buy-ins for $10,000 or more, in one or more transactions within a 24-hour period, will require a source of funds receipt,” the Crown corporation said. “The original receipt must be from the same day of the transaction and show the financial institution, branch number and account number.

“This information will be required before a customer is allowed to buy in.”

After Attorney General David Eby took office last year, he described being shown video footage of hundreds of thousands of dollars — in elastic-bound $20s — being dumped from duffel bags at casino teller wickets. He responded by ordering a report by former RCMP regional commissioner Peter German.

German’s bombshell report was titled Dirty Money. Compared to other jurisdictions, B.C. had allowed money laundering and organized criminal activity to flourish over a decade in its casinos, the report said, and the previous government had shuttered an anti-money-laundering enforcement unit despite insiders’ warnings about the problem.

As a result, Eby tabled and passed a revamp of B.C.’s casino legislation, including measures to force gaming businesses to flag all transactions over $10,000 to authorities and require them to prove where they got the cash on the same day.

And according to Eby on Monday, the new laws have worked, causing a “remarkable and sharp decline in suspicious transactions,” adding there’s been a “reduction of about 100 times from the peak of suspicious cash transactions.”

For that reason, Eby said, there can be no exceptions regarding disclosure.

B.C.’s rules are by no means unique. Had Drake or any celebrity walked into, say, a Las Vegas casino owned by Parq’s operator, Paragon Gaming, he would have discovered a tight net of laws and regulations also govern cash transactions there.

German visited Las Vegas, the hub of gaming on the continent, and met with enforcement officials and regulators there. His recommendations were largely inspired by Nevada’s model, including encouraging alternatives to cash and requiring identification and detailed record-keeping on large transactions.

“I hypothesized that a box of cash arrived with rubber bands at a cash cage,” German wrote about his meetings with Las Vegas’ deputy chief of the enforcement division and a casino investigator. “What would occur? The officers doubted that this would occur in Las Vegas.”

According to the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (the equivalent of Canada’s FinTRAC), “a casino is required to file a (Currency Transaction Report by Casinos) on currency transactions by or on behalf of any customer that, alone or when aggregated, exceed $10,000 in a gaming day.”

The same law applies to poker players buying in with “more than $10,000 in chips with currency, in a single transaction or a series of related transactions in the same gaming day.”

Violations in the U.S. could cost a casino $25,000 every day of the violation occurring, up to $100,000 per violation.

Drizzy has said nothing beyond his call-out on Instagram. But in his song “Diplomatic Immunity,” released on Jan. 19, he sings about a previous incident at a casino in Detroit:

“I refuse to comply with regulations … Motor City Casino, I’m at the cage with my old licence. They tell me, ‘Don’t worry, I got your money.’”

With files from The Canadian Press

David P. Ball is a Vancouver-based reporter covering democracy and politics. Follow him on Twitter: @davidpball

DETROIT – Dylan Larkin scored the only goal in a shootout to give the Detroit Red Wings a 3-2 comeback win over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night. Justin Abdelkader and Gustav Nyquist scored in regulation for Detroit, which has won four of five. Jimmy Howard stopped 40 shots before denying Elias Pettersson, Nikolay Goldobin […]

Baltimore is a much better overall team at home, have the league’s top-rated defense, and they have already beaten the Steelers in Week 4 and have won the last four out of five times they have played them at home. They’ll head into their bye with a win.

Dr. Football: Take the Ravens to win and cover.

New York Jets (3-5) at Miami Dolphins (4-4) Line: Dolphins by 3

In Week 2, the Miami held the Jets to 12 points in New York. Since then, the Miami defense hasn’t played as well, but they’ll still stop them at home.

Dr. Football: Take the Dolphins to win and cover.Atlanta Falcons (3-4) at Washington Redskins (5-2) Line: Redskins by 1.5

Like the Falcons themselves, I’ve given up; they’re not the team I thought they were. Washington isn’t either; they’re better than I ever thought they’d be. I’m drinking the Kool Aid.

Dr. Football: Take the Redskins to win and cover.Chicago Bears (4-3) at Buffalo Bills (2-6) Line: Bears by 10

All Chicago has to do is score is a field goal and they should have this one put away…the Bills won’t even get on the board.

The Packers held their own in L.A. on Sunday and really lost the game themselves. New England looked like they were practicing new schemes in Buffalo prepping for this one. I like Green Bay’s fight, but they can’t finish.

Dr. Football: Take the Patriots to win but not cover.

Monday Night

Tennessee Titans (3-4) at Dallas Cowboys (3-4)Line: Cowboys by 6.5

All of Dallas’ wins have been at home and the Titans have dropped three in a row. Both teams are coming off their bye and will be rested, but it won’t matter as Tennessee can’t score.

Dr. Football: Take the Cowboys to win and cover.(Follow Dave Petrishen on Twitter at @TheSportsDoctor)

Michigan voters have approved a wide-ranging constitutional amendment that will allow people to register and vote on the day on an election, request absentee ballots without having to give a reason and cast straight-ticket ballots.

Paul Jackson poured in a career-high 27 points, transfer Boubacar Toure had a double-double and Eastern Michigan pulled away from NAIA Rochester College for a season-opening 77-67 win on Tuesday night.

Health care and President Donald Trump's performance were important factors for Michigan residents who cast midterm election ballots Tuesday, according to a wide-ranging survey of the American electorate that found widespread unease with the nation's course.

Danny Brown has released the documentary Danny Brown: Live at the Majestic. The film, directed by Andrew Cohn, is exclusively available for purchase on Brown's website as a stream and digital download. It centers Brown's hometown 2016 performance at Detroit's Majestic Theater, explores the rapper's rise, and details the making of his 2016 album Atrocity Exhibition. Brown has said the…

Abraham Lincoln’s possible connection to Sandwich — he may have briefly stepped ashore when his steamship ran aground in the Detroit River in 1849 — failed to make the cut when citizens rated the neighbourhood’s top heritage stories. That tells a lot...

Authorities say officers shot and killed a man who fatally shot a police dog near a banquet hall in suburban Detroit. St. Clair Shores police responded Sunday night to a report of a man with a rifle outside Lakeland Manor, where there was a gathering...

I like to comment on season 1 episode 6 the man from Detroit we threw a hissy fit because somebody took to burnouts to start the race man got out of his car and was very aggressive towards a man twice his age I just want to say that it ruined the show and I can no longer watch it with my children the man store holler I believe he even threatened with a shot that if you was in Detroit on the streets he'd apparently be lucky if he wasn't shot now we all know Detroit is in the state of disarray and obviously it's because of people like that they have no respect for anybody else very poor sportsmanship I think Netflix as directors of the show I think you guys should make that man apologize I mean I was quite ridiculous that even get a shot to be on the show but I guess that's why I just want and I don't director I don't do anything like that so I have to agree with ALEKS LIMA the man was one of the first comments on this page I'd agree with you there bud the poor sportsmanship from the man from Detroit pretty much single-handedly ruined the show for me so thank you Detroit for sending your best to represent you you can get again showing why that city is a blight on the United States enjoy your night Detroit continue on the path are going why don't cities like that try to subside the United States I think the United States would have gladly let you guys leave us lol enjoy your night unbelievable SMFH unreal

Pistons forward Blake Griffin, left, has the ball knocked away by Miami Heat centre Bam Adebayo and runs into Pistons’ Andre Drummond during their game Monday in Detroit. Miami won 120-115 in overtime. For game coverage, go to windsorstar.com

MI-Detroit, DTS is looking for Senior Buyer - Electrical for a direct hire position in Detroit, MI with one of our automotive client. Job Description The Senior Buyer has overall responsibilities for coordinating with Central Purchasing for building and maintaining Client's supply base. The successful candidate will work in a lean, fast-paced and rewarding work environment, where he/she will have the support

Hi my name is Jason and I'm commenting on the show I was watching it I was enjoying it then I got to episode 6 season 1 there's a man from Detroit apparently who felt he was cheated because one of the other contestants had done two burnouts which nobody seems to be arguing but apparently this man from Detroit needed to get forcibly loud with an old man I found that very disrespectful and I am actually astonished that Netflix you guys would allow something like that to go on and not headed out I think the guy from Detroit should apologize than a man with a van that was just the most disrespectful thing I've ever seen in my life and I get that it's a reality show and you need your ratings but that man from Detroit basically ruin the show for me I won't watch it with my children anymore because I don't need them seeing some kind of disrespectful person like that I think that man needs to apologize I think he's a baby I think he's a sore loser and that was just about the worst sportsmanship that I've ever seen I mean this man has kids from all over the place looking up to these men who built their cars these women who go there is cars unless man has to throw a hissy fit I'm basically threw a temper tantrum because his piece of crap car stalled out at the starting line and his car definitely did not measure up to the standards that were at that starting line so he didn't deserve to be there in the first place to get hostile talk about being in Detroit and somebody getting shot I mean that's a little ridiculous for public TV don't you think but anyways that's just my personal comments on the situation I think the man from Detroit is pretty lucky that the guy with the van doesn't take a lawsuit against him for threatening him I mean me personally I was a pretty real threat against his life anyways if anybody cares to correct me and the fact that I am wrong and maybe you misunderstood what was going on but very clearly that man is a poor sport maybe wasn't raised properly

The Ilitches violated agreement to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in Detroit taxes; the Flint water crisis has gained little traction during the gubernatorial race; and a Shelby Township cop has been placed on leave after fatally shooting a man.

Rashida Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, and Somali-American Ilhan Omar became the first Muslim women elected to the US House of Representatives, after winning their contests in Michigan and Minnesota.Tlaib was a shoo-in for the Detroit area

MI-Detroit, We're searching for Telemetry or Progressive Care Unit (PCU) Travel Nurses to fill immediate openings at a hospital in the city of Detroit, MI. If this sounds great to you, and you have 2+ years of experience, keep reading and we'll make sure you get all the details. What will I do? Telemetry or Progressive Care Unit (PCU) Travel Nurses collaborate with a team of healthcare professionals on the un

The headlines tell the story about what is happening at urban polling places in many cities across the country this morning as voting has opened for the 2018 midterm elections. In Texas, the Houston Chronicle reported: “Long lines and machines down at multiple polling places across Houston” In Michigan, the TV station WXYZ in Detroit …

Most political pundits and insiders are declaring that today’s midterm elections are one of the most important of our lifetimes. As former President Barack Obama explained on Twitter, the character of our country is on the ballot. While national races definitely deserve your attention, the outcomes of down-ballot races for school boards, courts, and other local positions will shift individual communities. That’s one of the reasons we’re highlighting seven of the 36 governor’s races happening today.

Governors manage states, so they can determine everything from how public schools are funded to the expansion of Medicaid to working-class citizens to how Congressional maps will be drawn after the 2020 census. Every state deserves a governor invested in the people, and we hope the winners of these races do exactly that.

Paulette Jordan (D) vs. Brad Little (R) in Idaho

Paulette Jordan and Brad Little participate in a debate in Boise, Idaho on October 15, 2018 (Otto Kitsinger/AP)

If State Representative Paulette Jordan defeats Lieutenant Governor Brad Little, she’ll become the first Democrat to win the governorship since Cecil Andrus retired in 1999. She’d also become Idaho’s first woman governor and America’s first Native American governor. It’s a tall order for Jordan since Trump won the state by a 32-point margin in 2016, but, as the New York Times points out, she’s part of a wave of Democratic candidates in the West who “can help keep the party credible and energized.”

Get Bitch Media's top 9 reads of the week delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning! Sign up for the Weekly Reader:

Email *

Leave this field blank

Laura Kelly (D) vs. Kris Kobach (R) vs. Greg Orman (I) in Kansas

From left to right: Kris Kobach and Laura Kelly Charlie Riedel/Associated Press and Thad Allton/AP, File)

Bill Schuette (R) vs. Gretchen Whitmer (D) in Michigan

It has been eight years since Democrats have had any power in Michigan—but that might change today. Whitmer, who has served in the state’s House of Representatives and Senate, was leading Attorney General Bill Schuette by 12 percentage points in a recent Detroit News poll. If Whitmer wins, she plans to stop the expansion of charter schools and invest in universal pre-kindergarten, while Schuette said he’d support a Medicaid work requirement that would require recipients to either work, look for work, attend training, or volunteer for at least 80 hours per month. The winner of this race will also determine if new congressional districts are drawn by legislators or an independent commission.

Janet Mill (D) vs. Shawn Moody (R) in Maine

Maine’s government has been split since Democrats gained control over the House of Representatives and the State Senate in 2012. Now, as Republican Governor Paul LePage bids adieu, Attorney General Janet Mill is squaring off against businessman Shawn Moody. Hillary Clinton won Maine by three percentage points in 2016, and it seems that Mill is capitalizing on that momentum: A recent Emerson College Poll of 900 registered Maine voters shows Mill leading Moody by eight points. It doesn’t help that Jill Hayward, a former member of a management team at one of Moody’s automobile repair stores, has come forward about him discriminating against her while she was pregnant. (The case was settled in 2006, and Moody paid Hayward $20,000). The victor of this race will have the power to veto the new congressional maps that the state legislature will draw after the 2020 census.

* NB: The SSPX chapels among those Mass sites listed above are posted here because the Holy Father has announced that "those who during the Holy Year of Mercy approach these priests of the Fraternity of St Pius X to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation shall validly and licitly receive the absolution of their sins," and subsequently extended this privilege beyond the Year of Mercy. These chapels are not listed among the approved parishes and worship sites on archdiocesan websites.

Video: Be-Troit - A Hip Hop Documentary by Philipp Halver
BLPR: Be-troit is an exchange project between the cities of Berlin and Detroit during which 16 different artists (slam poetry, rap, singing, beatmaking) came together in Detroit in 2016 in order to unleash creative vibes resulting in creative outputs which far surpassed our wildest imaginations.

MI-Detroit, We're searching for Telemetry or Progressive Care Unit (PCU) Travel Nurses to fill immediate openings at a hospital in the city of Detroit, MI. If this sounds great to you, and you have 2+ years of experience, keep reading and we'll make sure you get all the details. What will I do? Telemetry or Progressive Care Unit (PCU) Travel Nurses collaborate with a team of healthcare professionals on the un

General Motors is under investigation by U.S. safety regulators that are considering forcing the company to expand a windshield wiper recall to cover 1.7 million additional sport-utility vehicles. Get the story at TheDetroitBureau.com.

Ford, FCA and other manufacturers have begun pairing back slow-selling passenger car models and shifting focus to hot SUVs and CUVs. Could Toyota be next? The Japanese giant's US CEO reveals he's taking a hard look at soft-sellers like the Yaris. More from TheDetroitBureau.com.

After a 7% spike in auto thefts in 2016, the number remained flat in 2017 when 773,139 cars, trucks, SUVs and crossovers of all types were stolen. There are a variety of reasons why a vehicle may get stolen, in particular, where you live. Find out where your car is most likely to get stolen at TheDetroitBureau.com.

Though sedans may be falling out of favor with the public, midsize sedans still represent a significant chunk of new vehicle sales in the U.S. Some automakers are fleeing that part of the market, however, Mazda seems committed to staying put and producing top-of-the-line offerings, like the new Mazda6. Get our driving impressions at TheDetroitBureau.com.

Warning sounds are, by definition, designed to draw your attention, but they often can get on your nerves, as well. Looking to create a "symphonic landscape" that was less jarring but equally effective, Lincoln turned to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to create 25 warning alerts. More from TheDetroitBureau.com.

November 2, 2018 Rolling Stone Magazine by Hank Shteamer

A hefty new box set, recorded live in 1973, captures the legendary bassist at the helm of a short-lived yet top-tier band

“If you’re going by the bare facts alone, Jazz in Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Selden is strictly for Charles Mingus completists. The new five-CD set includes nearly four hours of previously unreleased live material by the legendary bassist, all recorded on a single night in February 1973 for Detroit public radio. Unlike, say, John Coltrane’s recently unearthed Lost Album, Jazz in Detroit doesn’t date from a pivotal period in the leader’s career, feature an iconic lineup or introduce a wealth of unfamiliar repertoire.

But what looks marginal on paper turns out to be sheer joy coming out of the speakers, thanks in large part to Mingus’ lesser-known yet enormously gifted sidemen: tenor saxophonist John Stubblefield, trumpeter Joe Gardner, pianist Don Pullen and drummer Roy Brooks. Even Mingus aficionados likely won’t have heard this exact lineup, since only Pullen and Brooks worked with the bassist for more than a few months. Still, as heard in these performances of Mingus staples (“Pithecanthropus Erectus,” “Peggy’s Blue Skylight,” “Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk”) and a couple rarities, their grasp of the core elements of the bassist’s sound world — earthy swing; lush ensemble playing; roomy, impassioned solos — is extraordinary.

Pullen in particular nearly steals the show. The pianist would later become a star of the jazz vanguard, but at the time of Jazz in Detroit, one of his earliest documented performances with Mingus, he was still an up-and-comer. His prior experience playing everything from high-energy free improv to deep-pocket soul-jazz came in handy here. On “Celia,” a tender, melodious piece that dated back to 1957, his solo moves from crisp bebop to clanging, cyclonic expressionism and back, recalling the astounding technique of earlier Mingus pianist Jaki Byard. Later, underneath Stubblefield’s solo, the pianist tosses little firecrackers of abstraction the saxist’s way, urging his bandmate toward increasingly ecstatic peaks. And on a lengthy version of Duke Ellington’s “C Jam Blues,” he leads Mingus and Brooks into a wild free-jazz interlude.

The set’s more conventional moments are just as satisfying. “Dizzy Profile” — a piece apparently written for Dizzy Gillespie but not found on any other known Mingus recording — gives the players a chance to stretch out on an old-school ballad. Pullen plays a gorgeous rubato intro, leading into a dreamy, vocal-like theme led by Gardner. Solos by the trumpeter and Stubblefield show off each player’s timeless laid-back lyricism. Likewise, on the 26-minute “Noddin’ Ya Head Blues,” the whole band digs heartily into Mingus and Brooks’ slinky groove. (Late in the performance, the drummer puts down his sticks for a charmingly folksy turn on musical saw.) These pieces show that while many of Mingus’ peers had embraced plugged-in fusion by ’73, the bassist was still more than content with the fundamentals of acoustic small-group jazz.

Beyond the music itself, which sounds generally excellent for a live recording, Jazz in Detroit also has added historical value. A series of between-set radio segments interspersed with the music offer a window into the lively Detroit scene jazz at that time. We hear MC Bud Spangler, broadcasting from on site, giving directions to the Strata Concert Gallery — the home of Strata Records, an important local label of the period that DJ and Jazz in Detroit project coordinator Amir Abdullah has spent years researching and reviving — offering free admission to anyone who can bring a backup amp down to the show, bemoaning the sparse attendance and plugging upcoming installments in the Jazz in Detroit series, which also featured Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett and hometown luminaries like the Contemporary Jazz Quintet, for which Spangler was the sometime drummer.

Spangler also sits down for an extensive interview with Roy Brooks. Mingus’ then-drummer was a Detroit local and, as heard on this set, an outstanding player who by this time had also worked with jazz A-listers such as Wes Montgomery, Pharoah Sanders, Jackie McLean and Horace Silver. (Jazz in Detroit is sourced from Brooks’ own tapes, provided by the drummer’s widow, Hermine.) He describes the challenge of performing Mingus’ “very demanding” music — no doubt more so because Brooks was stepping into a role most often occupied by the bassist’s longtime drummer and musical soulmate Dannie Richmond — and the evolving audience for jazz at the time, marked by an influx of young fans who “a couple of years ago were really into the acid-rock scene.” His generally optimistic tone runs counter to the standard wisdom that jazz was on the rocks in the early Seventies.

This supplemental material only amplifies the sense that Jazz in Detroit is a niche document. As a slice of life, though, shedding light on both Mingus’ day-to-day activities during an overlooked period and the practice of jazz outside the New York limelight, it’s a treasure. Beyond the context, the music speaks for itself. Even a listener totally unfamiliar with Mingus, not to mention his undervalued collaborators, could jump into Jazz in Detroit‘s time machine and feel right at home in the bassist’s rich musical universe.”

DETROIT (AP) — Voters in Michigan were deciding Tuesday whether to legalize recreational marijuana, which would make theirs the first state in the Midwest to do so and would put conservative neighboring states on notice.

EAGAN, MN. – The Minnesota Vikings’ 10-sack performance against the Detroit Lions was not random. It wasn’t purely a product of a lost quarterback or struggling offensive line. Instead it was a glimpse at how…

The Oakland PressTwo cases of measles have been confirmed in Oakland County residents, arriving on a flight at Detroit Metro Airport at approximately 5 p.m. on Oct. 23. Officials from the Oakland County Health Division is advising people who possibly came in contact …Health officials warn of measles after two Oakland County casesDetroit Free Press2 […]

Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow was re-elected to a fourth term, defeating Detroit businessman and Army veteran Republican John James. Stabenow had seen the race tighten in the final days of the campaign. She faced a strong competitor in James, who would have become the second African-American Republican in the current Senate if he had won.

A Muslim woman from Detroit has won the congressional seat long held by Democratic Rep. John Conyers, who stepped down amid sexual harassment claims by former staffers. Democrat Rashida Tlaib was elected to represent Michigan's 13th House District on Tuesday, defeating three other candidates, including a write-in campaign by Detroit's City Council president, Brenda Jones.

Bill Harris has been a central figure in the cultural life of Detroit for a long time. The Kresge Foundation gave him their prestigious Eminent Artist Award several years ago, and his plays have been produced around the country. He has also published poetry and innovative interpretations of African-American history that defy any easy categories. I Got to Keep Moving is a collection of 25 short stories, but they are all so closely linked that the book begins to feel like a novel. There are characters and families that recur in many of the stories, but they are all connected one way or another to Harris’s fictional town of Acorn, Alabama. The book starts there with plantation stories from before the Civil War, and it ends with the broken memories of the place in an old woman’s mind sometime around the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. But the bulk of I Got to Keep Moving , it’s real emotional heart, happens in the Jim Crow South and during the slow movement of the people from Acorn up

Studio:
Taylor Marketing & All-Star WrestlingThe IWA was the first wrestling promotion to have a television program nationwide. Promoters Eddie Eihorn and Pedro Martinez put together a huge talent pool that would provide a national and international promotion with more stars than any other promotion had ever done. The list of stars in this first of many to come DVD series is like a who's who of the 1970's wrestling superstars. The IWA spared no expense to give the fans only the best. Jack Reynolds was a well noted and household name for his coverage of professional wrestling. Tex McKenzie not only wrestled, but also filled in as the color analyst. Ring announcing was handled by Rick Martin, who in real life was son of promoter, Pedro Martinez, his given name was Ronnie Martinez. They all provided professional insight and knowledge of the king of sports, professional wrestling. Not that Big Time Wrestling from Detroit had to take any back seats.

Featured here are a few of the Big Time Wrestling moments with the wisdom of Veteran mic man Chuck Allen and his partner Terry Sullivan filling us in on the action and shows coming up and the latest news. But the bonus here is the Memphis match that features the silver tongue, Lance Russell. Russell was like a good friend telling you always what was on his mind. The guys on the "stick" were a huge part of thousands of Wrestling fans on Saturday morning and the golden era of the 70s.

MI-Detroit, Who we are: Meridian, a WellCare Company, is part of a national network of passionate leaders, achievers, and innovators dedicated to making a difference in the lives of our members, our providers and in the healthcare industry. We provide government-based health plans (Medicare, Medicaid, and the Health Insurance Marketplace) in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. As a part of the WellCare Fam

Miami HeraldFive takeaways from the Miami Heat’s 120-115 overtime win over the Detroit Pistons (4-5) on Monday at Little Caesars Arena. 1. This was a much-needed victory. Must-win games in November don’t exist in the NBA. But this was still a win the Heat (4-5) …Detroit Pistons game info: Team looks to end losing streak […]

The violin holds special importance to me as part of my upbringing in Detroit, both as part of the musical world of my Jewish community and as an example of the citywide belief in music education. The Detroit that I grew up in had a pulsating inner musical life from the many populations that Detroit attracted to and housed in its vast industrial landscape. For the Jews, the violin literally had a special resonance.

MI-Detroit, Whiteline Express, Ltd., is seeking an experienced Customer Service Manager, operating out of our headquarters in Plymouth, MI. The CSM oversees the Customer Service team, ensuring that customer expectations are met to the highest level and develops strategies for continuous and margin improvement. This person is responsible for providing innovative leadership, developing market strategies, and co

The Detroit Lions released running back Ameer Abdullah on Tuesday after parts of four seasons with the team. Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reported the news. The Lions are signing wide receiver Bruce Ellington in a subsequent move...

The emaciated figure is seated with his long hands supported on his bent raised knee, his dhoti falling open to reveal his skeletal rib cage, his face finely modelled with downcast eyes and benign expression, the bronze patinated to a dark brownish-black colour with traces of gilding at the extremities.

Provenance: Private collection, the Netherlands.

Note: The present finely modelled figure depicts Shakyamuni Buddha during his long fast under the Bodhi tree, where he sat until he discovered the true nature of existence and suffering and realized how suffering can be ended. His meditation ultimately helped him to attain his enlightenment. It was in the Yuan dynasty that the modelling of Buddha in this manner became popular and a convention in Chinese art. However, according to Sherman Lee and Wai-kam Ho in Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), 1968, p. 124, 'the prototype could be traced back at least to Kuan-hsiu's Sixteen Arhats of the Five Dynasties period, or Buddhist paintings of the ninth and tenth centuries showing hermits and the familiar figure of Vasu in Tun-huang and Central Asia.'

Compare a similar bronze figure of Buddha from the Yuan dynasty, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 4 April 2012, lot 164. See also a lacquered gilt-bronze Shakyamuni figure, included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, London, 1957, cat. no. 292, from the Sedgwick collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2 July 1968, lot 37; and another example sold at Sotheby's London, 27 November 1973, lot 40.

Compare also a lacquer example with traces of colour and gold, in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, illustrated ibid., pl. 20, together with an unusually large gilt-bronze example in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, pl. 18, and a third sculpture made in dry-lacquer in the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, pl. 19.

Michigan voters have approved Proposal 2, the first step in ending the shady political practice known as "gerrymandering," or rigging elections with unfairly drawn district maps. With 45 percent of precincts reporting, the measure had 60.5 percent support, according to the AP.

In Michigan, those maps were drawn in 2010 by Republicans to favor (you guessed it) Republicans. Emails obtained by Bridge Magazine suggest Republicans actively re-drew the maps to favor their party and disadvantage "Dem garbage."…

With 22 percent of the vote counted, the Associated Press is projecting Gretchen Whitmer to win Michigan's gubernatorial race.

The former Democratic state Senate minority leader leads Republican candidate and Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette by about 68,000 votes, according to the New York Times.

Schuette was a Trump-style candidate who made immigration a focus of his campaign and as attorney general led the crusade against gay marriage, among other unpopular acts — a crusade that, much like his gubernatorial campaign, was not successful.…

Democrats Rashida Tlaib in Michigan and Ilhan Omar in Minnesota both won their races for House seats on Tuesday, becoming the first Muslim women ever elected to Congress.

Omar will fill the seat of Rep. Keith Ellison (D), who was the first Muslim person elected to the body and left his seat to run for state attorney general.

After both facing crowded primary races, the progressive candidates were all but guaranteed to win in the general election, with Tlaib facing no Republican challengers in Michigan’s 13th District, and Omar the favorite to prevail in Minnesota’s solidly Democratic 5th District.

“I stand here before you tonight as your congresswoman-elect with many firsts behind my name,” Omar said in her victory speech, to loud cheers and applause. “The first woman of color to represent our state in Congress, the first woman to wear a hijab, the first refugee ever elected to Congress and one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress.”

“Here in Minnesota we don’t only welcome immigrants,” she added, “we send them to Washington.”

Congress member-elect Ilhan Omar’s first words upon taking the stage: asalamu alaikum. The next words: al hamdulillah. “My grandfather taught me that when you see injustice, you fight back. You do not give in to sorrow, you do not give in to sadness. You organize.” pic.twitter.com/vyuYOKeC0r

Tlaib and Omar are also part ofa wave of progressive Democrats headed to Congress, seeking to push the party establishment further left and supporting policies like Medicare for All and a $15 minimum wage.

Tlaib also became the first Palestinian-American woman elected to Congress on Tuesday. The Detroit-born mother of two first made history in 2008 as the first Muslim woman in the Michigan legislature.

“I’m going to be a voice for them,” the 42-year-old daughter of Palestinian immigrants told HuffPost in August, speaking of Palestinians. “I look forward to being able to humanize so many of them that have felt ‘less than’ for so long.”

Lions Lions franchise DE Ziggy Ansah said he feels “amazing” after appearing in just his second game of the season last weekend. “It’s a process and we’re just taking it week in and week out,” Ansah said, via the Detroit Free Press. “We’ll see how it goes during the week and we’ll find out on Sunday how many reps […]

Detroit's powerhouse funk group Will Sessions has teamed up with Amp Fiddler (Parliament-Funkadelic, Was (Not Was), Mahogani Music) and soulful vocal trio Dames Brown for a decade-defying record that tells the story of young love in Detroit. The One is a product of spontaneous collaboration between two generations of musicians deeply rooted in funk, and putting their own modern twist on the funk tradition.…

For 75 years United Sound Systems recording studio has occupied 5840 Second Avenue in Detroit. Musicians from bluesman John Lee Hooker, funk rebel George Clinton, and many of Berry Gordy's Motown Records roster have recorded hits within these walls.…

MI-Detroit, Do you thrive in fast-paced technical environments and have a strong attention to detail? Are you eager to have a career where you are encouraged to meet your potential and have the opportunity to work for a prestigious company with an impressive global presence? FDM is currently seeking a number of ambitious and driven candidates with the aptitude for IT to work as FDM Consultants with our top cl

The Miami Heat faced and defeated the Detroit Pistons in a wild overtime win on Monday night. Josh Richardson led the way with 27 points to help the Heat sustain a 120-115 victory. But, something was extremely notable on the Heat’s starting lineup, there was no Hassan Whiteside due to a knee injury. The big …

This is a photo from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.The photographer’s stamp is very hard to read…however it was located in Red Lake Falls Minn

To grandma This is my Confirmation picture. Confirmed the 20th of August.

Hilda Lehmkuhl Red Lake Falls Minn

Thanks for stopping by. From MJM:In 1920 the following family lived at Red Lake Falls, MN. John Lehmkuhl 61 and wife Doris 44, both born in Germany. Children; Elwin 25, Hilda 23, Elsie 21, Rosie 18, Elma 15, Esther 12, Freda 10, and Doris 5. Children all born in MN. The index at the MOMS site shows a marriage for Rose A Lehmkuhl to Carl F Ulrich in 1928 and Hilda M Lehmkuhl to John Bansness in 1933.

MI-Detroit, Do you thrive in fast-paced technical environments and have a strong attention to detail? Are you eager to have a career where you are encouraged to meet your potential and have the opportunity to work for a prestigious company with an impressive global presence? FDM is currently seeking a number of ambitious and driven candidates with the aptitude for IT to work as FDM Consultants with our top cl

so do they have a 10 year warranty? I see that is scratched out on their packaging. do they not expect to be around in 10 years? i mean i don't think they will, but i would hope they think so.
Also, the price is too common-man, i mean, hipsters are their market and they dont even have to forego their daily avocado toast or $15 frape-blah-blah to afford one of these. I mean if hipsters dont have to take out additional student loans to pay for these luxuries i dont think they will want them. Cause everyone can afford them. No "bespoke" enough.

We’re excited to announce our first ever Yelp’s Top 10 Cocktail Bars in Metro-Detroit! With the holidays just around the corner we think it’s the right time to shed a light on all those tasty spots that can help you get through the holiday hullabaloo. We’ve made a list and we’re tipping it back twice. Here... Read more

The Oakland PressTwo cases of measles have been confirmed in Oakland County residents, arriving on a flight at Detroit Metro Airport at approximately 5 p.m. on Oct. 23. Officials from the Oakland County Health Division is advising people who possibly came in contact …Health officials warn of measles after two Oakland County casesDetroit Free Press2 […]

Miami HeraldFive takeaways from the Miami Heat’s 120-115 overtime win over the Detroit Pistons (4-5) on Monday at Little Caesars Arena. 1. This was a much-needed victory. Must-win games in November don’t exist in the NBA. But this was still a win the Heat (4-5) …Detroit Pistons game info: Team looks to end losing streak […]

MI-Detroit, Do you thrive in fast-paced technical environments and have a strong attention to detail? Are you eager to have a career where you are encouraged to meet your potential and have the opportunity to work for a prestigious company with an impressive global presence? FDM is currently seeking a number of ambitious and driven candidates with the aptitude for IT to work as FDM Consultants with our top cl

Here are election results from the major races we are following. Polls close at 8 p.m., and results will be updated as they come in. Listen to live election coverage on Michigan Radio: 91.7 Ann Arbor/Detroit, 91.1 Flint, 104.1 West Michigan, or stream it from the player above. You can also follow the results on Twitter .

Voters in Minnesota and Michigan on Tuesday elected the first two Muslim women to serve in the U.S. Congress, a former refugee who fled Somalia's civil war and a Detroit-born Palestinian-American. The victories by the two Democrats -- Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib -- came on an election night when members of multiple minority groups had a chance to score electoral firsts. In Minnesota, Omar, about 36 and a naturalized American citizen and state representative, follows another trailblazer: She will succeed U.S. Congressman Keith Ellison, who in 2006 became the first Muslim elected to Congress and is stepping down to run for state attorney general.

MI-Detroit, Do you thrive in fast-paced technical environments and have a strong attention to detail? Are you eager to have a career where you are encouraged to meet your potential and have the opportunity to work for a prestigious company with an impressive global presence? FDM is currently seeking a number of ambitious and driven candidates with the aptitude for IT to work as FDM Consultants with our top cl

Kenneth Myers started his career with the Burroughs Corp. in Detroit. In 1966, he made his way to William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., where he began as controller and ended his career 30 years later as CEO.

MI-Detroit, Do you thrive in fast-paced technical environments and have a strong attention to detail? Are you eager to have a career where you are encouraged to meet your potential and have the opportunity to work for a prestigious company with an impressive global presence? FDM is currently seeking a number of ambitious and driven candidates with the aptitude for IT to work as FDM Consultants with our top cl

DETROIT — An anonymous letter informed Michigan officials that they could find "a bunch of infant corpses" hidden in a crawl space of a closed Detroit funeral home, according to state records. The Detroit News used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a copy of the letter received by the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs on Oct. 12, which detailed concerns about the Cantrell Funeral Home.

Detroit police raided the home that same day and found the hidden remains of 10 fetuses and an infant. The letter alleged that a former funeral home employee had hidden the corpses and was searching for a way to retrieve them from the now shuttered facility.

"If you look above the door there's a crawl space and she has several infant corpse(s) placed back there dating back from over 10 years ago," the letter said.

The anonymous writer also alleged the employee forged hundreds of documents, including death certificates. Police have opened a criminal investigation into Cantrell.

State investigators suspended Cantrell's mortuary license in April after an inspection found deplorable conditions, such as bodies covered in what appeared to be mold. Another inspection in August uncovered "a stillborn corpse in a box atop a table," investigators said.

The Cantrell facility is among several funeral homes in Michigan facing misconduct allegations. A separate police investigation is looking into the Perry Funeral Home in Detroit, where more than 60 fetuses where found in boxes and freezers in September.

A judge granted class-action status Monday to a lawsuit filed against the Perry Funeral Home. Rachel Brown's lawsuit alleges that Perry mishandled her daughter's remains after Brown sought to donate the baby's body to the university's medical school for research.

"I've never seen anything (like this) in my 41 and a half years" as an officer, Detroit police chief James Craig said last month, the Detroit Free Press reported. "It's disturbing, but we will get to the bottom of this."

The findings prompted Gov. Rick Snyder to form a team to address funeral home problems.

Studio:
Taylor Marketing & All-Star WrestlingThe IWA was the first wrestling promotion to have a television program nationwide. Promoters Eddie Eihorn and Pedro Martinez put together a huge talent pool that would provide a national and international promotion with more stars than any other promotion had ever done. The list of stars in this first of many to come DVD series is like a who's who of the 1970's wrestling superstars. The IWA spared no expense to give the fans only the best. Jack Reynolds was a well noted and household name for his coverage of professional wrestling. Tex McKenzie not only wrestled, but also filled in as the color analyst. Ring announcing was handled by Rick Martin, who in real life was son of promoter, Pedro Martinez, his given name was Ronnie Martinez. They all provided professional insight and knowledge of the king of sports, professional wrestling. Not that Big Time Wrestling from Detroit had to take any back seats.

Featured here are a few of the Big Time Wrestling moments with the wisdom of Veteran mic man Chuck Allen and his partner Terry Sullivan filling us in on the action and shows coming up and the latest news. But the bonus here is the Memphis match that features the silver tongue, Lance Russell. Russell was like a good friend telling you always what was on his mind. The guys on the "stick" were a huge part of thousands of Wrestling fans on Saturday morning and the golden era of the 70s.

MI-Detroit, Do you thrive in fast-paced technical environments and have a strong attention to detail? Are you eager to have a career where you are encouraged to meet your potential and have the opportunity to work for a prestigious company with an impressive global presence? FDM is currently seeking a number of ambitious and driven candidates with the aptitude for IT to work as FDM Consultants with our top cl

DETROIT Niklas Kronwall is 37 and there are a lot of miles on his hockey odometer. However, the Detroit Red Wings defenceman can still deliver devastating open-ice hits — his victims have dubbed it being “Kronwalled” — by stepping up at the opposition...

DETROIT It was starting to look like another November to remember for Brock Boeser. Then came a groin tweak after an encouraging two-goal game Friday. Then came a maintenance day Saturday. And then came a brief pre-practice twirl Monday before the...

The violin holds special importance to me as part of my upbringing in Detroit, both as part of the musical world of my Jewish community and as an example of the citywide belief in music education. The Detroit that I grew up in had a pulsating inner musical life from the many populations that Detroit attracted to and housed in its vast industrial landscape. For the Jews, the violin literally had a special resonance.

DETROIT (AP) — Longtime Republican Rep. Fred Upton has won a 17th House term, defeating Democrat Matt Longjohn in southwestern Michigan. Upton defended his seat Tuesday after a campaign in which he stressed his bipartisanship at a time of divisiveness in Washington. He emphasized his contribution to a law that makes it easier to develop treatments and cures for diseases and his opposition to President Donald Trump’s move to cut Great Lakes funding and to pull out of the Paris […]

DETROIT (AP) — Gretchen Whitmer won the race for Michigan governor on Tuesday and Debbie Stabenow won a fourth term in the Senate as the Democratic Party took aim at the Republican Party’s hold on most statewide offices with a slate of female candidates. Whitmer pledged to fix the state’s rickety roads and reverse a retirement tax, while her opponent, Bill Schuette, had hoped a solid economy would convince voters to stick with a Republican. GOP Gov. Rick Snyder couldn’t […]

DETROIT (AP) — The primary opposition group to Michigan’s ballot initiative on whether to legalize recreational marijuana has conceded defeat. Healthy and Productive Michigan said in a statement Tuesday night that “our side lost” the measure that if approved will make the state the first in the Midwest to legalize its sale and use. The group adds “the level of responsibility … now rests on the shoulders of those who have voted Yes.” Opponents say legalizing marijuana would lead to increased […]

DETROIT (AP) — Michigan voters back new redistricting approachMichigan voters have passed a constitutional amendment that will entrust the job of drawing the state’s voting districts to an independent commission rather than the Legislature and governor. The ballot measure that passed Tuesday could alter the balance of power in a state Republicans have controlled since 2010. The measure’s proponents say it will stop partisan gerrymandering, in which the party in power draws electoral maps to maintain or improve its position. […]

DETROIT (AP) — Democrat Debbie Stabenow of Michigan has a fourth term in the Senate, defeating Republican challenger John James. Stabenow campaigned as a pragmatic lawmaker who forges bipartisan agreement despite the partisan rancor in Washington. She cited her work shaping farm legislation and pushing a new law that allows pharmacists to tell consumers when they can save on prescriptions by paying cash instead of using insurance. The 68-year-old Stabenow, of Lansing, criticized Trump’s attempt to slash federal funding for the […]

DETROIT (AP) — Dylan Larkin scored the only goal in a shootout to give the Detroit Red Wings a 3-2 comeback win over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night. Justin Abdelkader and Gustav Nyquist scored in regulation for Detroit, which has won four of five. Jimmy Howard stopped 40 shots before denying Elias Pettersson, Nikolay Goldobin and Bo Horvat in the tiebreaker. Pettersson and defenseman Ben Hutton scored for Vancouver, which had its three-game winning streak snapped. Jacob Markstrom made […]

The winds were gusting across Michigan on Tuesday as winter drew a little closer. By contrast, the warm ocean breezes in Carlsbad, California, were a welcome greeting for Al Avila and others general managers as MLB's GM Meetings picked up in earnest. The mild weather was also an apt symbol for where the Tigers stand heading into the second offseason of their rebuilding project. The gusty winds of change that carried veterans out of Detroit this fall have ebbed, leaving the Tigers with smaller moves to discuss this week.

Wednesday night used to be “Rivalry Night” in the NHL, at least in the world of NBC Sports, but is now just “Wednesday Night Hockey.” For this Wednesday, though, don’t believe it.It’s Rivalry Night, alright.The Washington Capitals host the Pittsburgh Penguins in a contest pitting teams with identical records against one another in what will be the 54thregular season meeting in the Alex Ovechkin/Sidney Crosby era.

The Caps will be looking to win consecutive games for the first time this season and boost their regular season record against the Pens in the Ovechkin/Crosby era to 24-21-9.It has been a bit of a struggle on home ice for the Caps who, after defeating the Edmonton Oilers by a 4-2 margin on Monday night, are 4-1-2 at Capital One Arena. They face a bold challenge from the Penguins, who are one of only three teams remaining that have not lost a game in regulation time on the road (4-0-2, trailing Nashville and Toronto, both at 6-0-0 after Monday’s games).

For more than a decade, the Penguins have been a forward-dominated, center-centric team featuring the offensive contributions of Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, and those two have been the top goal scorers and point producers over the last three-plus seasons. But over that same time, Phil Kessel has held his own as a primary contributor on the offensive side of the ledger.In his three-plus seasons as a Penguin, Kessel is third in goals (90), trailing only Crosby (115) and Malkin (109), and third in points (237), trailing Crosby (277) and Malkin (248).Over that period, no other Penguin is within 50 goals or 70 points of Kessel.Pittsburgh’s “Big Two” is as much a “Top Three.”Kessel has not let up this season, getting off to a hot start.His 7-9-16, plus-2 start through 13 games, a shade ahead of last year’s start (4-9-13, minus-1).Kessel is also among the most durable players in the league.Coming into this season he appeared in every scheduled regular season game for eight straight seasons and has not missed a regular season game since October 31, 2009, when he was skating in his second season with the Toronto Maple Leafs.Kessel is 11-21-32, minus-7, in 44 career games against the Capitals.

No one should be surprised that Kris Letang leads the defensemen in scoring for the Pens (4-8-12, plus-6, in 12 games).Since his 2007-2008 rookie season he is tied for seventh place in points per game by defensemen (0.65).The surprise so far is that Jamie Oleksiak is tied with Letang for the team lead in goals by defensemen (four) and is second in points (eight).Part of the surprise is that he is more reminiscent of those massive defensemen who thrived in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, at 255 pounds being heavier than every defenseman in the league except Winnipeg’s Dustin Byfuglien.The other is that he has not been a regular fixture in any lineup since he made his debut with the Dallas Stars in 2012-2013.Last season, one he split between Dallas and Pittsburgh (the Stars traded him in December 2017 for a fourth-round draft pick), was the first in which he dressed for more than half a season’s worth of regular season games (68).In doing so he set a tied a career high in goals (five) and set a personal best in points (17), both numbers he is within range of surpassing.Oleksiak is 1-0-1, plus-1, in six career games against Washington.

When Marc-Andre Fleury took his leave of Pittsburgh before last season to tend goal for the Vegas Golden Knights, the plan was a seamless transition to Matt Murray, who in his first two seasons was 41-12-5, 2.32, .925, with five shutouts in the regular season and two Stanley Cups on his resume.Well, you know what the poet Robert Burns said about plans. Having been given the top goaltending responsibilities, Murray has been an injury-plagued (lower body, concussion), disappointing performer in a season and change (31-20-4, 3.07, .903, with two shutouts).He also had to deal with the passing of his father, no doubt an influence on his performance.It has not been an easy time for Murray, who is only in his fourth NHL season and is not yet 25 years old.He started this season giving mixed signals that his troubles were behind him.He opened the season with a 4-1-0 record in his first five appearances, but his goals against average (3.37) and save percentage (.910) were not as impressive.It has only gotten worse.Murray is 0-3-1 in his last four decisions, while his goals against average ballooned to 4.65, and his save percentage dropped to .839 in those games.His 3.87 goals against average overall ranks 38th of 42 goalies with at least 250 minutes of ice time, while his save percentage of .886 ranks 35th in that group.Murray is 5-4-0, 3.93, .875 in nine career appearances against the Caps.

1.Letang and Oleksiak have those four goals apiece.The other six defensemen for the Pens have one goal among them (Jack Johnson).

2.Despite the Penguins’ success on the road (4-0-2), they have struggled with possession numbers.Only once in six games was their shot attempts-for at 5-on-5 over 50 percent (50.96 percent, a 53-51 edge, in a 6-5 overtime win over the Edmonton Oilers on October 23rd).

3.Pittsburgh allows more shots on goal than one would expect a successful team to allow.Their 34.1 shots allowed per game is fifth-most in the league, an average topped only by Detroit (34.6), the New York Rangers (34.9), Anaheim Ducks (37.0), and Ottawa Senators (39.1).Early in the season as it is, none of those teams are among the current playoff eligibles.

4.Only one team in the league plays within the rules more effectively than the Penguins.Their 6:50 in penalty minutes per game is lower than every team in the league except the Toronto Maple Leafs (6:30).The Pens are tied with the Leafs for the fewest penalties taken (43) and fewest minor penalties taken (39).

5.Scoring first matters to this team, at least so far.Pittsburgh is 5-0-3 when scoring first, 1-4-0 when they do not.

1.How close have the Caps played the Penguins in the Ovechkin/Crosby era?There is the 23-21-9 record.There is also the 166-164 margin in goals scored and goals allowed, the 1624-1636 difference in shots on goal, the 742-737 difference in penalty minutes, the 1390-1372 margin in credited hits, the 445-443 difference in charged giveaways, the 318-308 margin in credited takeaways, the 10.2 to 10.0 shooting percentage, the 115-110 difference in even strength goals scored.Yeah, these teams are closely matched.

2.Evgeny Kuznetsov, Nicklas Backstrom, and John Carlson have 36 assists among them.Of that total, 19 have come on power plays.

3.The Caps have had pretty good starts this season.The good news is that they have only trailed four times in 13 games at the first intermission.The bad news… they are 0-2-2 in those games.

4.Ditto on the whole scoring first thing.The Caps have one loss when scoring first (5-1-0), one win when allowing the first goal (1-3-3).

5.Evgeny Kuznetsov has six power play goals.His next one ties a career high, set last season in 79 games.

The Peerless’ Players to Ponder

Pittsburgh: Dominik Simon

For more than three decades, the Penguins have been a team defined by its stars – Mario Lemieux, Jaromir Jagr, Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin.Their success, however, has been more the product of the down-roster players making contributions, players like Bob Errey, Troy Loney, and Phil Bourque in the Lemieux Stanley Cup years, and players like Chris Kunitz, Matt Cullen, and Nick Bonino in the Crosby Cup-winning years.Which brings us to Dominik Simon.The 2015 fifth round draft pick from the Czech Republic has had perhaps a more rapid rise to the parent club than most fifth-round picks.Simon spent two years with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton in the AHL (and five games with the big club) before he got a longer look last year in Pittsburgh (33 games).This year, he has been an important contributor in the early going, a scoring line of 3-5-8 (fifth among Penguin forwards in points), plus-5, in 13 games.He had a five-game points streak stopped in a 5-0 shutout at the hands of the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday and comes into this game without a point in two straight contests.He has not gone three straight games without a point so far this season.Simon has one assist and is minus-2 in two career games against the Caps.

Washington: Brett Connolly

If Nicklas Backstrom is the Washington Capital who has flown under the NHL radar for most of his career, Brett Connolly might be the Cap skater who does so among his own fan base.Since arriving in Washington in the 2016-2017 season, his 32 goals are sixth-highest on the team, as are his 27 even strength goals.His 0.21 goals per game is fifth-highest among current Capitals over that two-plus season span.If he records a point against the Pens, he will become the sixth Capital to reach double digits (unless Lars Eller has two before Connolly gets that point).He started this season without a goal in his first six games, but he has two in his last seven.That he has two goals in 13 games is not necessarily cause for alarm.Connolly had two goals through the Caps’ first 13 games last season (actually, two through his first 17 contests) and two through his first 13 games the previous season (a streak that became two in 15).He had 15 goals in each of his two seasons with the Caps coming into this year, so he would seem a decent bet to approach that number this time around.Connolly is 3-2-5, minus-1, in 18 career games against Pittsburgh.

In the end…

If there is a new wrinkle in this series, it is in how different the games in Pittsburgh and Washington have played out recently.In the last four games in Pittsburgh, the teams combined for 43 goals, the Pens holding a 23-20 edge.In Washington, the last four games were played to a total of 27 goals, the Caps having an 18-7 edge.It argues for a more close-to-the-vest sort of game on Wednesday, although in this context, that is a relative thing.The fault line on this game might rest on the Capitals having a top notch scoring offense and power play, while the Pens have allowed five or more goals in three of their last four contests.

What does a car sound like? Sure, there’s the growl of a gas engine, or the electric thrum of an EV’s motors, but all the other noises – alerts, reminders, and general chimes – have to come from somewhere. In the 2020 Lincoln Aviator, due to make its debut later this month, they’re the handiwork of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. … Continue reading

A monthly look at what the media is reporting on the MSU Engineering community

The race is on to create cheap materials to store energy for the U.S power grid, said Mechanical Engineering Department Chair James Klausner. MSU is sharing a $2 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). “We think we can return electricity to the grid at less than 5 cents per kilowatt hour,” he said.Midwest Energy News

Peter Savolainen, a new MSU Foundation Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, joined MSU to better understand road user behavior. He talks about his mobility goals in a column on MSUToday.MSUToday Faculty Voice

Bryan Smith, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and a former colleague at Stanford University have created a computer simulation, validated by experimental results, to help design drug-delivery nanoparticles that carry cancer-fighting medicines directly to tumors. Their research was published in Biophysical Journal.dBusiness (Detroit)MSUToday

MSU signed a dual PhD agreement with the National Technical University of Athens in Greece for the preparation and training of engineers at both academic institutions. Dean Leo Kempel and MSU Foundation Professor John Papapolymerou, who chairs the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, signed on behalf of MSU.Michigan Technology NewsU.S. Embassy, Athens, Greece, Facebook

University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science & Engineering Anil Jain:• Facial recognition is being used in animal conservation. A Norwegian fish farm company hopes to use face identification technology in high-tech salmon farms to check the animals for a parasite called sea lice and other health problems. Michigan State Universitycreated a system that can recognize the faces of individual lemurs to track the health of endangered species.Smithsonian• Spain's most-read newspaper featured Anil Jain after he was presented an honorary degree by the Autonomous University of Madrid in recognition of 50 years of advancing the study of pattern recognition.El PaisMSUToday

IACMI is closing the loop onautomotive carbon fiber prepreg manufacturing scrap for use in new automotive applications. Its partners include … Michigan State University in East Lansing.Composites World

Aitor Aguirre, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and IQ, works on understanding how human tissues respond to injury and how they regenerate when they are injured.WKAR

MSU is improving the retention of women in computer science with a one-credit Computational Thinking Lab. See what Computer Science and Engineering Professor Laura Dillon had to say on this active learning option.EdScoop

StudentsYear 2 of the AutoDrive Challenge has kicked off. Spartan Engineers are again among the eight teams sponsored by General Motors and SAE International to develop and demonstrate a fully autonomous passenger vehicle by the end of Year 3. See video:DE 24/7 - Digital Engineering

Former facultyHerman D. Hughes, professor emeritus of computer science and engineering and former assistant dean of the graduate school at MSU, was honored as a 2018 Outstanding Alumni at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.KATC TV 3 Louisiana

AlumniMark Van Port Fleet, a 1979 civil engineering graduate, has been named the new director of the Michigan Department of Transportation and will lead its 2,500 employees and $4.7 billion annual budget.Crain's Detroit NewsDetroit News

Shannon Venable (BS ELEC EGR ’82) is the CEO and president of the Children’s Museum of Richmond, Virginia.Richmond Times Dispatch

What started as a computer science capstone project featuring dungeons and giants has launched as a video game for alumni Patrick Williams, Chris Ulrich, Zach Klegon, Matthew Bearup, and Elan Gleiber. They spent 12-hour days for nearly three years on “Rogues Like Us.”City Pulse

MSU Pride Points• Oct. 2: A research team led James Klausner and Joerg Petrasch of mechanical engineering received a competitive $2 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop innovative designs for long-duration storage on the U.S power grid.• Oct. 5: In recognition of 50 years of advancing the study of pattern recognition, University Distinguished Professor Anil Jain was presented an honorary doctorate by the Autonomous University of Madrid.• Oct. 15: PhD student Muhamad Munum Masud of civil and environmental engineering will be recognized at the 2019 Transportation Research Board annual meeting in Washington, D.C., for winning first place honors for his data analysis on long-term pavement performance.

MI-Detroit, Who we are: Meridian, a WellCare Company, is part of a national network of passionate leaders, achievers, and innovators dedicated to making a difference in the lives of our members, our providers and in the healthcare industry. We provide government-based health plans (Medicare, Medicaid, and the Health Insurance Marketplace) in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. As a part of the WellCare Fam

BEAUTIFUL 1947 SMITH and Wesson 38 SPECIAL 5 SCREW. I bought it in 1980 From a retired Detroit Cop. Only fired by him to Qualify. I have pushed about 200 down the tube I believe less than 500 shot. Rifling is perfect. It has been worked on prior to me buying it. Has a crazy nice single action pull. Very tight lock up. May consider partial trade for a Smith or Colt snubby. No new gen light weights please. What you got for trade?? AR, 308 . M1 30 carbine?? Buyer pays FFL transfer here in Tacoma or near

If the Republican presidential hopefuls agreed on anything at last week’s Iowa debate, it was the need for America to create jobs. And one city that needs jobs is Detroit. The city itself has an unemployment rate hovering around 24 percent. The lack of jobs is one reason that nearly one-quarter of the population left […]

Tom McNamara, Blueprint America More than a few people have likened the devastation inside some neighborhoods in Detroit, Michigan, to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. One observer said succinctly that Detroit has suffered a ”slow-motion hurricane Katrina.” Architect and urban planner Reed Kroloff has been able to see both cities close up. As dean of […]

Kathleen Hughes, Blueprint America More than half of Detroit’s 3,000 police officers currently live in the suburbs. In 1999, the Michigan state legislature lifted a law that required cops serving in the city to live in the city, and the ensuing exodus has been dubbed the “Blue Flight.” But yesterday, one police officer announced that he […]

MI-Detroit, Do you thrive in fast-paced technical environments and have a strong attention to detail? Are you eager to have a career where you are encouraged to meet your potential and have the opportunity to work for a prestigious company with an impressive global presence? FDM is currently seeking a number of ambitious and driven candidates with the aptitude for IT to work as FDM Consultants with our top cl

MI-Detroit, Do you thrive in fast-paced technical environments and have a strong attention to detail? Are you eager to have a career where you are encouraged to meet your potential and have the opportunity to work for a prestigious company with an impressive global presence? FDM is currently seeking a number of ambitious and driven candidates with the aptitude for IT to work as FDM Consultants with our top cl

DETROIT (AP) " Voters in Michigan were deciding Tuesday whether to legalize recreational marijuana, which would make theirs the first state in the Midwest to do so and would put conservative neighboring states on notice.The Associated Press hadn't called the Michigan race as of early Wednesday, but the primary opposition group to the marijuana ballot measure conceded defeat. Healthy and Productive Michigan said in a statement Tuesday night that it's side lost and that "the level of [...]

Turning point refers to the time when somebody has ultimately created a decisive change in his lifestyle that can have beneficial results. For instance, there's an addicted personal who understood that pursuing his addiction could only carry nothing at all but damaging outcomes on his wellness that's why he wants to start generating a adjust of it. Rather of pursuing his dependancy, he had made a decision to shift the route of his existence by confessing to turning stage rehab. What specifically is turning level rehab? What are the solutions that turning level rehab gives?

Opioid Recovery Detroit turning stage rehab is a rehabilitation middle that focuses on supplying recovery providers to people no matter of their age. In Meth Detox Detroit , they have several, seasoned, and effectively-skilled therapists and addiction specialists who are inclined to provide a extensive variety of care, proof-based mostly treatments, and defensible studies. They apply nursing for accidents this kind of as mind accidents (mild to significant), comfortable tissue accidents, and sophisticated orthopedic.

Turning point rehab also has these pursuing companies for equally alcoholic beverages and drug issues:

1. Loved ones System

Turning stage rehab has a philosophy that not just the addicted person who very likely get influenced with his dependancy, the complete family will get influenced as nicely. And due to the fact of that, their aim is to involve and support the household during the recovery procedure.

2. Quick-phrase Inpatient

Their short-time period inpatient characteristics an all-inclusive and intense remedy for material use and abuse that lasts for fourteen to 28 days only in a medical and comforting location.

Not like quick-expression inpatient, restoration time lasts for as prolonged as 90 days. Their lengthy-term inpatient gives extensive and intensive care as properly to secure the restoration for patients that they have promise.

Recreational marijuana advocates were lighting up and passing joints in Detroit after a ballot proposal passed to legalize pot. Proposal 1 allows marijuana to be regulated like alcohol. Michigan residents over 21 years old will soon be able to buy, possess, use, and grow marijuana. Matthew Abel, an attorney with the Cannabis Counsel in Detroit, says there is still work to be done on marijuana laws in the state. “We need to go back and add expungement for marijuana offenses; there’s nothing automatic about it,” Abel said. He’s not alone in thinking more needs to be done to address people who are locked up for non-violent marijuana-related offenses. State Senator Coleman Young II attended a pro-recreational pot party in Detroit. “Now I’m very hopeful that we can now work on getting these brothers and sisters out of jail and getting them into jobs, and that’s what I’m all about,” Young said. The group that unsuccessfully fought against legalizing recreational marijuana is not giving up

SC-01: The upset potential here in the Low Country is starting to get real. Like...really real. With 92 percent of precincts reporting, Democrat Joe Cunningham now has a 52-48 lead over Republican Katie Arrington.

Colorado: Big time downballot win for the Democrats. The AP has declared the Secretary of State race for Democrat Jena Griswold, who defeats Republican Wayne Williams by a 51-47 margin. She is the first Democrat to hold that office in sixty years.

CA-50: CNN has declared that this seat, a mild reach for the Democrats, will remain in the hands of Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter, who leads Democrat Ammar Campa-Najjar by a 54-46 margin. Now, he has to stay out of the reach of the law, given his recent indictment.

WA-03: The Republicans have managed to hold onto another Democratic “reach seat”, as CNN calls this race for Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, who leads Democrat Carolyn Long 52-48 with just over two-thirds of the vote tallied.

Panthers at Steelers, Thursday, 5:20 p.m.: Carolina has won three in a row, Pittsburgh four straight. Lions at Bears, 10 a.m.: The Law of NFC North Equalization demands a Detroit win. Saints at Bengals, 10 a.m.: New Orleans coming off consecutive...

DETROIT — It was starting to look like another November to remember for Brock Boeser. Then came a groin tweak after an encouraging two-goal game Friday. Then came a maintenance day Saturday. And then came a brief pre-practice twirl Monday before the...

Niklas Kronwall is 37 and there are a lot of miles on his hockey odometer. However, the Detroit Red Wings defenceman can still deliver devastating open-ice hits — his victims have dubbed it being “Kronwalled” — by stepping up at the opposition...

Detroit coach Jeff Blashill said he’s “a real big fan” of Elias Pettersson and gushed to the point Monday where he added that “he loves” the slick Swedish centre. Part of that is the manner in which the Canucks rookie became just the 16th player in NHL...

MI-Detroit, Do you thrive in fast-paced technical environments and have a strong attention to detail? Are you eager to have a career where you are encouraged to meet your potential and have the opportunity to work for a prestigious company with an impressive global presence? FDM is currently seeking a number of ambitious and driven candidates with the aptitude for IT to work as FDM Consultants with our top cl

Two years ago, the Detroit rapper Tee Grizzley released the urgent and forceful "First Day Out." He recorded the song the day after prison, where he'd been serving time for robbery. The song made Tee Grizzley a sensation, and he how has a viable rap career. This week, Tee Grizzley will release his new mixtape…

MI-Detroit, At FCA Industrial Engineering our mission is to deliver World Class Manufacturing solutions. We are driven by the following core values: An Appetite for Innovation, a Dedication to Team, the Ambition to Become Elite, and a Passion to Deliver, founded in the fact that We Care. The Industrial Engineer - Assembly will be responsible for direct/indirect labor and activities affecting line speed, cycle

USCIS will start using their new Information Services Modernization Program in some of their field offices, beginning with the Detroit Field Office and five other offices in the Los Angeles District on November 1, 2018. Field offices in the Newark, Great Lakes, and the San Francisco areas will start using the program during the first […]

MI-Detroit, Sr. Director of Operations Tier I Automotive An exceptional World Class High Volume Manufacturing company has an immediate need to fill a position of Sr. Director of Operations at their corporate facility located in the Detroit, MI area. Job Description: Head of an organizational or functional unit with responsibility for strategy development and implementation Generally supervises others responsi

MI-Detroit, Do you thrive in fast-paced technical environments and have a strong attention to detail? Are you eager to have a career where you are encouraged to meet your potential and have the opportunity to work for a prestigious company with an impressive global presence? FDM is currently seeking a number of ambitious and driven candidates with the aptitude for IT to work as FDM Consultants with our top cl

I know everything I need to know about what happens when blacks are in charge from Detroit, Haiti, South Africa, etc.

So, electing a black person as governor of Georgia will turn Georgia into Haiti, eh? Irregardless of that person's policies... merely the melanin the person's skin, I suppose....
Well, so, I guess if electing a black governor in Georgia will turn Georgia into Haiti, then Haiti could become like the U.S. by electing a white as president -- I suppose, not necessarily even a particularly intelligent one, just any white person would do, no? Magic melanin... or lack thereof, I guess...
You know, all of these articles that are mirrored from VDare are such worthless crap. I would suggest to Ron (in case he's listening) that the line "republished from VDare" should appear at the top of these articles, not the bottom, just like word count is at the top.
This could save people a lot of time. If I saw right from the start that something comes from VDare, I just wouldn't bother.

So we figured we'd just put up an open thread/liveblog of good stuff, bad stuff, fucked up stuff, funny stuff, because it ain't like there's any other breaking news besides OMG VOTING IS SO HOT RIGHT NOW.

As we made the decision to do this post, we were watching the MSNBC, like the common gay liberal we are, and we exclaimed "MSNBC IS SO GAY RIGHT NOW." Jonathan Capehart was on there talking about his husband who works for Senator Heidi Heitkamp's campaign and Josh Barro was sitting there like "Uh huh I am also too a gay leather daddy but I do not have a story about Heidi Heitkamp's campaign at the moment for I have failed at life," and host Craig Melvin was like "I am not gay but most of the other people in this building at any given time are, OH HEY LOOK AN UPDATE ON BETO!"

So that is your MSNBC status report.

Our next updates in this post will be less vapid, or maybe they won't, you can't tell us what to do.

11:34: Here is an awesome woman in Oklahoma who is a Republican and who voted straight Dem for the first time ever because she was super fuckin' grossed out by the Kavanaugh hearings. Thank you, awesome Oklahoma woman!

11:37: MSNBC has also been playing this video all morning of a badass Beto voter in Texas. She is your new Nana, and you are lucky for that.

11:45: If you need a reminder of what we're fighting against, you should know that Trump seems to have convinced his followers he has TWO DICKS. This lady votes, y'all.

11:49: Wonkette's official Niece has a question for you, about voting:

And Jacob Wohl has visited his imaginary hipster coffee shop and met some new imaginary friends:

That is just how it always is. It's also how people refer to gay people, as "LGBT couples."

12:10: So one of the big stories today is that lines are long EVERYWHERE. Some places, that's a good and normal thing, because they don't have early voting (Missouri and New York for instance, though New York is known for not having its shit together on a regular basis). Some places are having balls-out crazy turnout even though their early voting was balls-out crazy. We're hearing about this in Tennessee, where we live. Also, it's happening in Georgia, though SOME OF THE FUCKERY has to do with things like this:

Oh for God's sake. Can they be any more obvious? "Let's put just a couple voting machines in SW Atlanta, it'll be fiiiiiine." (SW Atlanta has a high African-American population, if you didn't know.)

12:20: For more on voter problems around the country, here is a thread from Ari Berman, who is monitoring all that:

In short, shit is fucked up in Georgia, and if Brian Kemp ekes out a tiny little win there, now you know why. If everybody who's qualified to vote gets to vote, Brian Kemp loses. If he can suppress just enough voters, he wins. It's the GOP way!

12:24: And now, a public service announcement from your Editrix:

Oh look, a donation widget, for you to donate, right here in the post!

How often would you like to donate?

Just once
Monthly

Select an amount (USD)

$2$25$5$50$10$100$15$500$20$1000

Back with another update when we wanna!

12:34: What's wrong with voting in Alabama? Oh, just MOIST BALLOTS.

12:41: Jesus Christ, did Brian Kemp visit all the majority black precincts in Georgia last night and fuck up their voting machines? Read this whole thread.

1:11: Do you know anybody in these states/districts who might need a nudge to the polls today? Do they like having healthcare? Jimmy Kimmel is here with a helpful list of people who voted to screw people with pre-existing conditions!

1:15: Big surprise, but shit is FUCKED in North Dakota and the GOP is doing everything it can to keep folks from voting:

1:21: If this doesn't get folks to the polls to vote against Republicans dunno what will ...

1:32: Texas. Probably no big deal, bet there are no Beto voters in ARLINGTON.

1:39: Some voting problems aren't about wet ballots but more like about WET FARTS.

Andy Richter persisted:

1:44: Yes, there are some crazy voting problems happening, especially in Georgia. But maybe this tweet will make you feel better:

1:46: Ivanka Trump says please vote, does not specify that people should vote for Republicans. So DO LIKE IVANKA SAYS, DEMOCRAT PARTY!

1:55: Here is a fact about the Republican asshole running against Debbie Stabenow in Michigan.

2:14: No tweet or news item to share with you here, but from what we can see on MSNBC, voter turnout in Nashville is OFF THE CHAIN. And we've been hearing the same from our friends in Memphis, and we are not hearing about voting maching fuckery or anything like that.

This is good news for John McCain Phil Bredesen.

2:27: These morons, because they don't believe women, STILL do not get that we REALLY, TRULY BELIEVE THE WOMEN. As in we REALLY, TRULY BELIEVE THAT BRETT KAVANAUGH TRIED TO RAPE OR OTHERWISE SEXUALLY ASSAULT OR HARASS THOSE WOMEN.

Really! We do!

And we're going to say so every time he writes a ruling or otherwise appears in public! And we're going to tell our kids to stay away from him!

MI-Detroit, Do you thrive in fast-paced technical environments and have a strong attention to detail? Are you eager to have a career where you are encouraged to meet your potential and have the opportunity to work for a prestigious company with an impressive global presence? FDM is currently seeking a number of ambitious and driven candidates with the aptitude for IT to work as FDM Consultants with our top cl

Across the country, states are on track to overwhelmingly change the way elections are run.

In the ballot measures that passed Tuesday, voters in at least three states took the power to determine political boundaries away from state legislatures, while a similar proposition in Utah was too close to call. Voter registration deadlines could become a thing of the past in three states that are making it easier to take part in elections.

Several states approved initiatives adopting voter ID laws that are aimed at curbing voter fraud (which has proved close to nonexistent despite claims to the contrary).

In Florida, voters approved a measure that automatically restores voting rights to most felons who have completed their sentences.

Colorado amendments Y and Z

Colorado voters overwhelming supported the two proposals, which will allow independent commissions to draw electoral districts for legislators and members of Congress after the 2020 census. As Colorado Public Radio explains, the measures each needed 55 percent of votes to pass but garnered more than 70 percent of the vote.

Florida Amendment 4

In passing Amendment 4, a Florida electorate that elected a Republican governor and appears to be on track to elect a Republican senator also voted to extend voting rights for people with felony criminal records.

Currently, Florida is one of the strictest states when it comes to restoring felons' right to vote, according to NPR member station WLRN. Felons who have completed their sentence, up to 1.5 million of them in the state, do not automatically get back the right to vote.

But this amendment looks to change that, automatically restoring the voting rights of felons, except those convicted of murder or sex crimes.

Maryland Question 2

Voters in Maryland voiced their support by 67-33 percent to allow residents to register to vote on Election Day.

"We're telling people that we value their vote and their participation," said Maryland Del. Kirill Reznik, D-Montgomery, who began pushing for same-day registration a decade ago, to The Washington Post. "Some states are making efforts to close the ballot box. ... In Maryland, I'm proud of everything we've done to open it."

Michigan proposals 2 and 3

Michigan also passed a law significantly changing the way the state's political lines are drawn for congressional and state legislative districts.

The amendment will take the power to draw those lines out of the hands of state lawmakers, as the Detroit Free Press explains, and put it into the hands of an independent redistricting commission made up of four Republicans, four Democrats and five people who identify with neither party.

The state also approved a wide-ranging amendment that will allow people to register to vote on Election Day and will institute automatic voter registration. It will also allow voters to request an absentee ballot for any reason.

Missouri Amendment 1

Another effort meant to change the redistricting process, this Missouri amendment passed with more than 60 percent of the vote. The "Clean Missouri" proposal will eliminate the current system of drawing state legislative districts using a bipartisan committee.

Instead, a new, nonpartisan state demographer will propose maps that a bipartisan commission will then vote on.

North Carolina Photo ID Amendment

North Carolina voters across the state will have to show photo ID to vote, in accordance with a measure that passed Tuesday 55 percent to 44 percent.

Legislators will be responsible for determining the type of photo ID that will qualify.

Currently, 17 other states require photo ID, and North Carolina specifically has had an interesting history with the policy.

Michael Tomsic of member station WFAE wrote two years ago about the lengthy battle over the state's law, which was ostensibly meant to combat voter fraud:

"That fight began in 2013, when the state made cuts to early voting, created a photo ID requirement and eliminated same-day registration, out-of-precinct voting and preregistration of high school students.

"More than half of all voters there use early voting, and African-Americans do so at higher rates than whites. African-Americans also tend to overwhelmingly vote for Democrats."

Those provisions of the law were struck down in July 2016 by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court refused to revive it last year.

North Dakota Measure 2

This amendment doesn't trigger any change to the voting process in the state, but it does change the North Dakota Constitution to emphasize that voters must be citizens of the U.S. to cast ballots.

The amendment, which passed with more than 65 percent of the vote, will amend the constitution to state that "only a citizen" of the U.S. can vote in federal, state and local elections. Currently, the constitution reads that "every citizen" of the U.S. can vote, according to Ballotpedia.

Nevada Question 5

This ballot measure is another automatic voter registration measure. With 17 percent of ballots reporting, the measure led 53 percent to 47 percent.

Wayne Thorley, the deputy secretary of state for elections, explained to NPR member station Reno Public Radio that an automatic registration system can improve timeliness and accuracy of voter rolls.

"When there is a human entering data into a system off of a paper voter registration form, there could be data entry errors," he said.

Utah Proposition 4

This Utah proposal, which is currently tied 50 percent to 50 percent with 73 percent of ballots reporting, would create an independent commission appointed by the governor and legislative commission to draw Utah's congressional and legislative boundaries after the census every 10 years.

MI-Detroit, Do you thrive in fast-paced technical environments and have a strong attention to detail? Are you eager to have a career where you are encouraged to meet your potential and have the opportunity to work for a prestigious company with an impressive global presence? FDM is currently seeking a number of ambitious and driven candidates with the aptitude for IT to work as FDM Consultants with our top cl

New York City is officially a one-party town, at least in the way that the nation’s largest city represents itself in Congress.

Rep. Dan Donovan, the Republican congressman from New York’s 11th district representing Staten Island and South Brooklyn, has lost his re-election bid to Democrat Max Rose. It’s a sign of just how big a swing two years of Donald Trump have delivered in and around big U.S. cities. In 2016, Donovan won by 25 points; Trump won his district by 9.

Staten Island, which makes up the bulk of the New York 11th, was emblematic of one feature of Trump’s appeal—his success (compared to Mitt Romney) in a set of white northern suburbs that also included Long Island, New York, and the Detroit metro area. It looks like voters in those places are having second thoughts. Turnout in the New York 11th lagged behind 2016, but Donovan is on his way out. Rose was a good candidate, but his success owes a lot to the anti-Trump zeal that brought out an army of canvassers to support him.

The last time New York City’s congressional delegation didn’t have a Republican was in 2009, after the Obama election brought a blue wave to the House.

Americans created history on Tuesday when they elected two Muslim women – Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib – to Congress.

Although Muslim men have been elected to Congress before, Ilhan and Rashida are the first Muslim women to represent Americans in the US House of Representatives.

Ilhan, 37, was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, on October 4, 1981. In 2016, she was elected a Democratic Party member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, making her the first Somali-American legislator elected to a public office in the United States.

A hijab wearing mother of three, Ilhan is married to a Somali-American Ahmed Hirsi. She has a bachelor’s degree in politics from North Dakota State University and has also studied public affairs.

She won the Democratic primary on August 14, 2018 and contested the election on a party ticket.

Ilhan's father, Nur Omar Mohamed, is a teacher trainer. Her mother died when Ilhan was a child and she was raised by her father and grandfather. After the start of the civil war in 1991, she and her family fled Somalia and spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya.

In 1995, they emigrated to the United States, initially settling in Arlington, Virginia and then moving to Minneapolis.

Ilhan ran from Minnesota’s 5th district, a deeply Democratic area previously represented by a fellow Muslim, Keith Ellison, who won six terms from here.

She beat Republican Jennifer Zielinski to take Keith Ellison’s seat, which he vacated to run for Minnesota attorney general.

Rashida Tlaib

Technically, Palestinian-American Rashida Harbi Tlaib is the first American Muslim woman to be elected to Congress. Although her election was officially announced on Tuesday, she was elected unopposed as no one came forward to challenge Rashida in another deeply Democratic district.

Rashida, who is associated with a socialist group within the Democratic Party, is also very popular in this constituency.

On January 1, 2009, Rashida became the first Muslim American woman to serve in the Michigan Legislature, and the second Muslim woman in history to be elected to any US state legislature.

In 2018, she won the Democratic nomination for Michigan's 13th congressional district and won unopposed.

She was born on July 24, 1976, to working-class Palestinian immigrants in Detroit and is the eldest of 14 children. Her parents were both born in Palestine.

Rashida played a major role in raising her siblings as her parents worked or relied on welfare are for support.

She graduated from Wayne State University with a BA in political science in 1998 and in 2004, she earned a law degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School.

Polls are starting to close across the country, so that’s it for our daytime election news. We’ve got a night crew taking over. For updates on the results and other developments throughout the evening, click over to our election live blog.

Election Day is finally here. Tuesday’s midterm elections could very well hinge on a few dozen races and slight shifts in voter turnout. Election forecasts suggest that Democrats have a good chance of taking the House and that Republicans will most likely retain control of the Senate. But close races across the country mean it could be a long night.

We’ll be updating this post all day with news from across the country about the voting process: voter-suppression efforts, last-ditch campaign pushes from candidates, the weather forecast, and anything else that comes up as tens of millions of Americans cast their ballots.

Check in throughout the day for the latest news.

When Will Anything Important Happen, Anyways?5:30 p.m. — The first polls close at 6:00 p.m., though we likely won’t see any indicators of where the House is leaning until around an hour later, when crucial races in Virginia, Florida, and Georgia will report results.

You’ll really want to tune in by 8:00 p.m., when dozens of House races and a handful of competitive gubernatorial races will close, giving us very strong signals of where this night is headed. Pennsylvania and New Jersey’s congressional races will be particularly important at this point.

Election forecasters are predicting that we could know whether the Democrats are going to be able to take the House at about 9:00 p.m., when results from decisive races in Arizona, Colorado, and Minnesota will become available.

Some Last-Ditch Endorsements from the President4:30 p.m. — President Trump, who has been mostly quiet on Twitter on Tuesday, abruptly issued four endorsements for Republican House candidates in Illinois, Florida, Michigan, and New Jersey in quick succession this afternoon.

All four tweets include some variation of the phrase “Strong Endorsement!” or “Total Endorsement!” It’s unclear why he waited until so late in the day to voice his support—he had issued no such endorsements on Twitter this morning.

The New York Times reports that Trump has been “bracing for grim political news” today.

Extended Hours at Some Polling Places in Georgia, Indiana3:55 p.m. — Some polling places are planning to stay open past their official hours to make up for delays and mix-ups earlier in the day.

The Annistown Elementary School, a polling place in Georgia, will stay open 25 minutes past its official closing time due to problems with its electronic ExpressPoll system, which led to an hours-long waiting time. (See below for more details on the problems there today.)

A judge ruled on Tuesday afternoon that 12 polling places in northwestern Indiana have to keep operating up to two-and-a-half hours late after they did not open on time. The Republican clerk for Porter County, Indiana, blamed the late start on poll workers quitting, a failure to pick up election supplies, and issues with accessing polling sites.

More Voting Issues in the Southeast and Midwest3:15 p.m.— Reports of voting hiccups are coming in from across the Southeast and Midwest, where many tightly contested races are taking place. Here’s a sampling of reported issues.

Voters at various Detroit polling places have been turned away or forced to wait in hours-long lines because of frozen machines and improper use of surge protectors. Some machines in North Carolina have been unable to process paper ballots due to high humidity levels and the length of the voter forms. Voters in South Carolina have reported that their votes were changed to the opposite party because of to calibration issues. Confusion over a court case on voter ID laws in Missouri has also led poll workers to incorrectly inform people that they need to show photo identification to vote.

But the state with the most problems remains Georgia.

Trouble in Georgia1:45 p.m.—It appears that malfunctions in the voting process have been particularly acute today in Georgia, where the closely watched gubernatorial race between Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp is taking place.

The AP reports that people have been waiting in line for hours in certain counties due to problems with voting machines. The machines at a polling place in Snellville didn’t have power cords and were running out of battery life, leaving more than 100 people waiting. Voters in Gwinnett, a battleground district, reportedly have been waiting in line for 4½ hours because of bugs in the election ExpressPoll system.

Poll workers have been trying to provide provisional paper ballots instead, and dozens of voters have reportedly left due to the long lines. The Annistown Elementary School, a polling place in Gwinnett, will stay open for 25 minutes past the normal closing time to accommodate for the delay.

The problems on Election Day follow a series of controversies involving Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, who as Georgia’s current secretary of state is essentially overseeing the election procedures in his own race. During the campaign, Kemp has baselessly accused the Democratic Party of hacking into the state’s voter database, delayed more than 50,000 voter registrations for small inconsistencies like missing hyphens, and rallied against rules allowing people to prove their identities if their absentee-ballot applications are initially rejected due to mismatches in signatures.

Does Your Vote Count If You Die Before the Election Ends?12:45 p.m.—The Washington Post reported that an 82-year-old Texas woman named Gracie Lou Phillips cast a ballot for the first time in her life during early voting on Thursday. Her son-in-law told the Post that Phillips had previously declined to vote because she didn’t believe she had a voice, but this time decided to vote straight-ticket Republican. Then she died on Monday. Does her vote still count?

Yes. The rules around early and absentee ballots cast by voters who die before Election Day vary from state to state. Texas is one of the states that allows for such votes to be counted. Even in states like South Dakota, where these votes are technically invalid, most voting systems are not quick enough to update their rolls with recent deaths in time for tallying.

What People Are Asking Google Today12:30 p.m.—The top trending searches on Google today include some you might expect, with inquiries like “election results” and “where do I go to vote” taking spots among the most popular searches.

ProPublica’s Electionland trend map, which shows what search terms are popular in certain areas of the country, shows that the inquiries “long wait times” and “provisional ballots” have been seeing spikes, particularly along the East Coast.

We tried to help out voters by answering one pressing question: Is it legal to take a selfie with your ballot?

How to Spot Voter SuppressionNoon—While malfunctioning machines and long lines are often just the result of poor planning, it’s good to be on the lookout for efforts designed to deprive people of their right to vote. Here’s a two-question interview with Slate’s legal writer Mark Joseph Stern, who has covered voter disenfranchisement extensively.

What are some red flags that voters should be looking out for at polling places?

Stern: Voter purges are a key tool of disenfranchisement. In recent years, we’ve seen state officials remove thousands of voters from the rolls without their knowledge—and often in violation of federal voting-rights laws. If you witness lots of people being told they’re mysteriously absent from the rolls, that might indicate a purge. If you yourself are missing from the rolls, you may have been the victim of a purge. But it could also be a result of simple maladministration.

What should voters do if they spot signs of suppression efforts?

Stern: If you’re missing from the rolls, insist that election officials check again. If they still can’t find you, call 866-OUR-VOTE for assistance. It’s a hotline staffed by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. They’ll help you out—and if you’re one of many people struggling to vote at your precinct, they’ll flag it and investigate further.

If you are told you can’t vote for some reason, the most common solution is to demand a provisional ballot. You can then cast a vote, but must follow up shortly after Election Day to provide whatever materials you’re ostensibly lacking, or else your ballot won’t be counted. Not every state follows this procedure, however, so it’s imperative to call 866-OUR-VOTE.

Did It Have to Happen Today? 10:30 a.m.—The Atherton Elementary School, which is serving as a polling place in Michigan, is holding armed-intruder training sessions on Election Day. But don’t worry: The district informed voters that they should not be alarmed if they hear gunshots and see people fleeing the campus. There will also be several police vehicles in the parking lot from 8 a.m. to noon.

The U.S. Border Patrol in El Paso, Texas, also planned a “crowd-control” exercise in a Latino neighborhood at 10 a.m. The American Civil Liberties Union has criticized the timing and location as “suspicious.” (Update: The Border Patrol subsequently issued a press release stating that the exercise has been rescheduled but did not give a reason why.)

Early Morning Polling Place Failures10 a.m.—There have already been multiple reports of voters being turned away at polling places due to lack of preparation and other logistical failures.

For example, the ABC affiliate in Detroit is reporting that people who arrived at the polling place at Martin Luther King Jr. High School this morning were unable to vote because the voting machines were missing. Due to miscommunication, the machines had been locked in a closet on the opposite end of the campus that election workers were unable to access. The issue was later resolved.

The Houston Chronicle further reported that multiple polling places across the city are experiencing technical difficulties with machines, leading to long lines. One polling place had a line of about 70 people as of 8 a.m.

The recorder for Maricopa County, Arizona, has confirmed that there are “building access issues” at least one polling place in the area.

Twitter users from across the country have also reported issues. One claimed that election workers at a polling place didn’t have a key to unlock the ballot box. Another said that an election inspector failed to show up altogether.

Who Does Bad Weather Help? 8:30 a.m.—Strong winds, rain, and snow are expected as part of a major storm on the East Coast on Monday, potentially affecting voter turnout in states with key battleground districts. Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, and other states with multiple toss-up races are likely to experience storms throughout the day. Does it matter?

The conventional wisdom is that inclement weather helps Republicans because it discourages people from making the trip to vote. The consensus among election researchers seems to be that bad weather does impact turnout, but it’s unclear how exactly this phenomenon plays out for certain political parties and voter demographics.

A 2007 study found that for every inch of rain, voter turnout drops by almost 1 percent, ultimately benefiting Republicans. Another study in 2016, though, found that rain in fact marginally benefits Democrats. Researchers at Dartmouth College suggest that rain on Election Day may actually persuade people to vote Republican instead of Democrat, and researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill produced evidence indicating that stormy weather prods voters to pick the candidate they see as less “risky.”

Not Waiting Until Today8:15 a.m.—Early voters have been turning out in full force in the weeks before Election Day. CNN reports that, as of Monday morning, at least 31 million people have voted early in 2018. That’s far more than the 22 million early votes that were cast in the 2014 midterm elections.

In at least 10 states, voters under 30 account for a larger portion of this early-voting electorate than they did in 2014. Democrats have interpreted this initial surge as a good sign, since higher turnout usually works in the party’s favor, though we don’t yet know the political leanings of these early voters.

MI-Detroit, Do you thrive in fast-paced technical environments and have a strong attention to detail? Are you eager to have a career where you are encouraged to meet your potential and have the opportunity to work for a prestigious company with an impressive global presence? FDM is currently seeking a number of ambitious and driven candidates with the aptitude for IT to work as FDM Consultants with our top cl

WR David Moore had a chance for a final touchdown, but couldn't grab Russell Wilson's pass. / Drew McKenzie, Sportspress Northwest

The best sports teams are able to do over and over that which they do best. Which explains how the Seahawks are 4-4 at the seasonal midpoint. A week after they were running with BMW smoothness for a win at Detroit, they came home Sunday for the first time in a month and blew gaskets, threw rods, overheated and under-performed.

DETROIT (AP) " Voters in Michigan were deciding Tuesday whether to legalize recreational marijuana, which would make theirs the first state in the Midwest to do so and would put conservative neighboring states on notice.The Associated Press hadn't called the Michigan race as of early Wednesday, but the primary opposition group to the marijuana ballot measure conceded defeat. Healthy and Productive Michigan said in a statement Tuesday night that it's side lost and that "the level of [...]

MI-Detroit, Job Description WHO WE ARE: Trelevate has recently been recognized by Inc 5000 as one of America's top performing companies. In 2016 we were awarded Best Places to work. We believe that People are the difference. Trelevate is a one-stop resource for customizable, turnkey sales strategies utilizing proven solutions that best fit our client’s goals. At Trelevate, we train our elite full-time sales f

Southpoint Church is seeking a Student Minister to lead, oversee and equip ministries for Middle school and High school. Southpoint is devoted to activating the next generation through developing and deploying leaders to win downriver to Christ through creating
Christian families who are committed, connected and contributing. Applicants should have at least five years of experience working with youth, and a proven record of developing Nextgen leaders and staff. Mastery of Orange (family ministry) values, and Christian
college training a plus. Southpoint is biblically conservative, identifies with the independent Christian Churches, and has three campuses in the suburbs south of Detroit MI. To apply go towww.southpointccc.com/employment

As the Packers fell two wins behind in the win column to the division-leading Chicago Bears this past Sunday, the team must now gather some sense of urgency over the final eight weeks of the season to have any hopes of competing for the division crown and a spot in the NFC playoffs come January.

As of today, the NFC North standings sit as follows:

Chicago Bears: 5-3

Minnesota Vikings: 5-3-1

Green Bay Packers: 3-4-1

Detroit Lions: 3-5

At 3-4-1 now halfway through a season that had high hopes from many, a lot of people have written off the 2018 Green Bay Packers. With four ugly losses and a couple of ugly wins to boot, does this team have problems? Damn right they do. If the Packers want a legit shot at the division this year, they must fix the problems in their own house first. But the reason that most have written the team off is the thought that the issues can’t be fixed this season. I’m calling BS on that!

With the addition of Jimmy Graham this past offseason, the emergence of Davante Adams as a top receiver in the NFL and the second year coming out party for Aaron Jones and Jamaal Williams, the 2018 Packers offense was believed by many to have the potential to be one of the best offenses of the Aaron Rodgers era in Green Bay. Add to that the return of Joe Philbin as the offensive coordinator and refreshed playbook, hopes were high entering the 2018 season.

But the sad reality through eight games is that the Packers offense has lacked all of the key qualities it had in the past: explosiveness, a momentum-shifting ability and sheer dominance. While the finger can be pointed in many different directions to find the reason for the Packers failures as an offense, many of the issues start with the man under center performing up to the world-class expectations that he sets for himself and the fans put on his shoulders. Following the loss in New England, you could sure hear the disappointment in Aaron Rodgers’ tone and he knows that he needs to do his part to help this offense get to where it needs to be moving forward. Aside from the crucial mistakes and the coaching woes, Rodgers alone possesses the ability to change the direction that his offense moves and I have confidence that can happen.

With a continually improving defense that has been keeping them in games against Super Bowl contenders, the unit should only get stronger as the season progresses and this bodes well for helping this team turn things around. The crunch time mistakes that have killed this team in several games this season obviously need to be cleaned up, but a fully functioning offense can keep the team out of those predicaments in the first place.

If the Packers can clean up their own issues and start getting on a roll, they’ve put themselves behind the 8-ball to the point where they’ll need some help from those teams that they’re trailing in the standings to compete for a division championship. The big question is what the magic number will be to clinch the NFC North championship at the end of the season.

With eight games remaining on their schedule, the Chicago Bears finish the season as follows:

vs. Lions

vs. Vikings

@ Lions

@ Giants

vs. Rams

vs. Packers

@ 49ers

@ Vikings

With five of their final eight games against NFC North rivals and a split of home and away games, do the Bears possess the ability to find at least five more wins to get to ten wins on the season?

With seven games remaining for the remainder of their season, the Vikings finish as follows:

Bye

@ Bears

vs. Packers

@ Patriots

@ Seahawks

vs. Dolphins

@ Lions

vs. Bears

The Vikings finish their season with four of their last seven games on the road and matching up against NFC North competition in four games, including the Chicago Bears twice. Can the Vikings be trusted to pull five wins out of their final seven games to get to ten wins on the season?

If either the Bears or Vikings turn loose in the second half of the season and get to 11 wins, the Packers chances are pretty much all but toast. In not trusting the Bears offense to perform up to the standard of a playoff hunt in November and December and knowing the Vikings are a Jekyll & Hyde team, I’m putting 50-50 odds on nine or ten wins taking the NFC North this season.

To get to 10 wins, the Packers need to finish out the season 7-1 at worst. If the Vikings and Bears should falter, 6-2 may be just enough to get them to where they need to be. With the Packers having the opportunity to get right this Sunday at home against an inferior Miami Dolphins team and then traveling on short notice to take on the Seattle Seahawks, the season may just hinge on the trip to Minneapolis the following weekend to take on the Vikings in primetime on Sunday night.

All four Packers losses this season have come on the road and the team definitely needs to figure out their struggles away from Lambeau field if they want to turn this season around. The task will be difficult in traveling to Seattle and Minnesota in the coming weeks. But if the team can play to their potential and get some wins rolling, December sets up very nicely with three home games against the Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons and the Detroit Lions with trips to take on the Chicago Bears and New York Jets.

No matter how you break things down on the 2018 season, the fact of the matter is that a sense of urgency is needed now for the Packers to have any shot of competing for an NFC North crown. While many doubt that the ship can be righted at this point of the season, I’m putting my money on #12 and his ability alone to put the offense back in sync. While the fat lady hasn’t started her tune yet on the 2018 Green Bay Packers, more additions to the loss column will have her warming up her vocal cords and eventually belting out operatic arias for all of Packers nation to mourn to upon hearing.

BeBe Winans just presented the Broadway-bound musical BORN FOR THIS as a one-night-only concert at Feinstein's/54 Below (254 W. 54 St). Sharing the stage with Winans was director Charles Randolph-Wright (Motown), legendary Grammy and American Music Award winning recording artist Stephanie Mills, and members of the cast from last summer's pre-Broadway tryout in Boston including Maddie Shea Baldwin (Bright Star), Liisi LaFontaine(Dreamgirls), Loren Lott (Once on this Island), Donald Webber Jr. (Hamilton), Kirsten Wyatt (Annie), and Nita Whitaker (Ragtime). The evening introduced the BORN FOR THIS story and some of the original songs from the Broadway aimed musical, which also played regional engagements in Atlanta, Washington D.C., and Los Angeles.

BORN FOR THIS is a universal story for anyone who has ever yearned to find his or her own purpose in life. It follows BeBe, a talented young man from a tight-knit musical family as he grapples with the struggle between his faith and his desire for fame. As teenagers BeBe and his sister CeCe, experience genuine culture shock when they leave the comfort of their home and family in Detroit to join Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's "Praise the Lord" network in North Carolina. When the duo rocket to fame, the seductive lure of celebrity comes knocking. Ultimately, Bebe must reconcile the temptations of stardom and fortune with the things he values most in life.

Looking to get back to winning… With six teams returning from their bye, four different clubs will take a rest in Week 10. This brings 14 fun games for NFL enthusiasts to enjoy this week. Included within these matchups will be the Chicago Bears defense against the Detroit Lions. Might fans expect another Bears wipeout? […]

MSU to the Rose Bowl? Yes, it could happen. It would take a few things happening for that scenario to play out, but what the whole episode only gets off the floor with a win over Ohio State on Saturday in East Lansing. Mark Dantonio is 3-6 against the Buckeyes since his time at Michigan State, which…

While Democrats celebrated their House victory, the Senate gains were a victory for Trump, who had devoted much of his energy in the final stretch of the campaign to helping Republican Senate candidates. Republicans make history by keeping U.S. Senate while losing House Source

Several residents in Detroit's Brightmoor neighborhood are seeing red. Many of the renters are feeling neglected and disrespected after a symbol of celebration was placed on their doors – a symbol that did not make them smile. It was a big red balloon with a message attached to call the property management company, KMG Prestige. “When you call…

Michigan voters have approved Proposal 2, the first step in ending the shady political practice known as “gerrymandering,” or rigging elections with unfairly drawn district maps. Gerrymandered no more: Michigan approves redistricting reform Source

Michigan voters have approved Proposal 2, the first step in ending the shady political practice known as “gerrymandering,” or rigging elections with unfairly drawn district maps. With 45 percent of precincts reporting, the measure had 60.5 percent support, according to the AP. In Michigan, those maps were drawn in 2010 by Republicans to favor (you guessed…

Michigan voters have approved a measure to make it easier for the state’s residents to vote. Proposal 3 — which enshrines in the constitution automatic voter registration, same-day voter registration, no-reason absentee voting, and straight-ticket voting — was approved with 67 percent support, according to WDIV. The move was designed to help safeguard the provisions…

They seem almost human… I do not believe in evolution, the idea we came from monkey’s insults me… but after observing their behavior – you can see how people would think they are distant cousins… Want a Print? jermzphotography.zenfolio.com/ Image published by Jermz Photography on 2009-07-07 01:35:40 and used under Creative Commons license. Tagged: ,…

The Detroit Lions stumbled into the midpoint of their 2018 season with a dismal 24-9 loss to the Minnesota Vikings, leaving the Lions with a 3-5 record. Original published: 2018-11-07 00:53:01 Read the full Detroit News here

You can get a Ken Daniels & Mickey Redmond limited-edition talking bobblehead on Dec. 2 with this special fundraising ticket with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the Jamie Daniels Fund. Details: https://redwn.gs/2PqQowQ Source

Jocelyn Benson supports same-day voter registration, no-reason absentee voting, early voting, and other excellent ideas to help fix a busted democracy. Michigan elects its first Democratic Secretary of State in 24 years Source

The Michigan Health Department has confirmed two cases of measles in Oakland County residents. Officials say the cases arrived on a flight at Detroit Metro Airport on Oct. 23 around 5 p.m. Anyone at the airport during that time is advised to watch for symptoms for 21 days after the possible exposure. source

Identifier: railwayage44newy Title: Railway age Year: 1870 (1870s) Authors: Subjects: Railroads Publisher: New York [etc.] R.G. Lewis [etc.] Contributing Library: Robarts – University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see…

#BREAKING: U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., won election to a fourth six-year term in office Tuesday night, beating Republican newcomer John James and keeping the seat in the hands of Democrats. Debbie Stabenow beats John James for re-election to U.S. Senate Source

The violin holds special importance to me as part of my upbringing in Detroit, both as part of the musical world of my Jewish community and as an example of the citywide belief in music education. The Detroit that I grew up in had a pulsating inner musical life from the many populations that Detroit attracted to and housed in its vast industrial landscape. For the Jews, the violin literally had a special resonance.

MI-Detroit, Do you thrive in fast-paced technical environments and have a strong attention to detail? Are you eager to have a career where you are encouraged to meet your potential and have the opportunity to work for a prestigious company with an impressive global presence? FDM is currently seeking a number of ambitious and driven candidates with the aptitude for IT to work as FDM Consultants with our top cl

MI-Detroit, Do you thrive in fast-paced technical environments and have a strong attention to detail? Are you eager to have a career where you are encouraged to meet your potential and have the opportunity to work for a prestigious company with an impressive global presence? FDM is currently seeking a number of ambitious and driven candidates with the aptitude for IT to work as FDM Consultants with our top cl

Our Practice is looking for a dedicated Doctor of Optometry with strong diagnostic skills and a passion for delivering patient-centered primary eye care for our officesin the surrounding Detroit, Michigan area. Experienced ODs and New Grads welcome. Fill-in and part-time positions will be considered.

As one of our optometrists, the responsibilities of practice management are handled for you, allowing you to spend your time with patients, not paperwork. You do not have to worry about running the business. No staffing issues, administrative work, or headaches to take home with you after work.

You will also enjoy:

A competitive salary plus monthly bonus potentialConvenient hoursPaid time off and paid holidaysA comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and retirement savings planAn annual, all-expenses paid, company-wide CE event with 22 hours of COPE CEMeaningful opportunities to give back locally and internationallyA strong network of peers and mentors that fosters professional development

We are committed to providing the highest quality patient care and are looking for candidates that are dependable